13-letter words containing g, a, l, b
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- negotiability — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
- new ball game — a new or changed situation: Once we're out of debt it'll be a whole new ball game.
- non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- non-navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- non-obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- nonbiological — pertaining to biology.
- nondegradable — not subject to or capable of degradation or decomposition: nondegradable waste.
- nonnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- nonobligatory — Not obligatory; not required; optional.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- oblique angle — an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.
- old bulgarian — the Bulgarian language of the Middle Ages.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
- panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- rearrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
- regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- sea vegetable — an edible seaweed
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-barrel — a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- soluble glass — sodium silicate.
- space biology — exobiology.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.