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

  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • building line — the boundary line along a street beyond which buildings must not project
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • changeability — liable to change or to be changed; variable.
  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cycle billing — a method of billing customers at monthly intervals in which statements are prepared on each working day of the month and mailed to a designated fraction of the total number of customers.
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
  • destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
  • disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
  • generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
  • germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • googlebombing — 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.
  • governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
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