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14-letter words containing g, l, i, b, e, n

  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
  • digestibleness — The quality of being digestible.
  • disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • dressing table — a table or stand, usually surmounted by a mirror, in front of which a person sits while dressing, applying makeup, etc.
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • embarrassingly — In an embarrassing manner.
  • embellishingly — in an embellishing manner
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
  • gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
  • gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
  • general public — people in general
  • gilbert pattenGilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • google bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • google-bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
  • hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
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