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

  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • 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
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
  • 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
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • 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
  • gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
  • gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
  • 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 patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • girls' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for girls, founded in 1893, with the aim of promoting self-discipline and self-respect
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • 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)
  • goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
  • 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.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • 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 jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • heidelberg man — the primitive human being reconstructed from the Heidelberg jaw.
  • hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
  • huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
  • image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • interchangable — Misspelling of interchangeable.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
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