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11-letter words containing g, a, l, b

  • brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • buffalo bug — carpet beetle
  • bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
  • bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
  • bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
  • busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • canal barge — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
  • cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.
  • cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • clark gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
  • conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
  • dangleberry — a blue huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa), native to E North America
  • db2 catalog — (database)   An IBM DB2 system table listing all objects in a database installation including hosts, servers, databases, tables and many more. Commands are provided to manage the catalog, e.g. db2 catalog database mydatabase on /databases/mydatabase to add a database reference.
  • dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
  • defatigable — (very, rare) Easily tired or wearied; capable of being fatigued.
  • deflagrable — having the ability to burst into flames quickly
  • delagoa bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean, in S Mozambique
  • delightable — (obsolete) Delightful.
  • diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
  • diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
  • diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • dignifiable — Capable of being dignified.
  • disenabling — Present participle of disenable.
  • disguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
  • douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
  • douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
  • east bengal — formerly a part of the Indian province of Bengal; now coextensive with Bangladesh. Compare Bengal (def 1).
  • elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
  • emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
  • embracingly — In an embracing manner.
  • embrangling — Present participle of embrangle.
  • enlargeable — Capable of being enlarged.
  • exchangable — Alternative spelling of exchangeable.
  • fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
  • flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
  • flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
  • gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
  • galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
  • gallbladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
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