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11-letter words containing g, a, r, b, o

  • job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
  • keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
  • marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
  • negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
  • nonbreaking — Alternative spelling of non-breaking.
  • objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
  • objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
  • objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
  • objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
  • obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
  • oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
  • omnibearing — the magnetic bearing of an omnirange station.
  • orange book — (security, standard)   A standard from the US Government National Computer Security Council (an arm of the U.S. National Security Agency), "Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, DOD standard 5200.28-STD, December 1985" which defines criteria for trusted computer products. There are four levels, A, B, C, and D. Each level adds more features and requirements. D is a non-secure system. C1 requires user log-on, but allows group ID. C2 requires individual log-on with password and an audit mechanism. (Most Unix implementations are roughly C1, and can be upgraded to about C2 without excessive pain). Levels B and A provide mandatory control. Access is based on standard Department of Defense clearances. B1 requires DOD clearance levels. B2 guarantees the path between the user and the security system and provides assurances that the system can be tested and clearances cannot be downgraded. B3 requires that the system is characterised by a mathematical model that must be viable. A1 requires a system characterized by a mathematical model that can be proven. See also crayola books, book titles.
  • organizable — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
  • overbearing — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
  • oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • programable — capable of being programmed.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • pyroballogy — the study of artillery
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • springboard — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
  • subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
  • subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • unabrogated — not abrogated, revoked, or annulled
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