10-letter words containing g, l, i, b
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- logic bomb — (programming, security) Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or operating system that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare back door.
- logophobia — an obsessive fear of words.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- lowballing — the practice of offering a customer a deceptively low price
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lullabying — Present participle of lullaby.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- migratable — Capable of migrating.
- mobilising — Present participle of mobilise.
- mobilizing — Present participle of mobilize.
- mulligrubs — ill temper; colic; grumpiness.
- nebulizing — Present participle of nebulize.
- negligible — so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: The extra expenses were negligible.
- negligibly — so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: The extra expenses were negligible.
- negotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- neighborly — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- nibblingly — in a nibbling manner
- niggerball — (South Africa, dated) A large black sweet which changes colour (turns white) when sucked.
- night bolt — night latch.
- nightclubs — Plural form of nightclub.
- obbligatos — Plural form of obbligato.
- obligately — In an obligate manner.
- obligating — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.
- obligative — implying or involving obligation: an obligative commitment.
- obligators — Plural form of obligator.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- obligement — Obligation.
- obligingly — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- obsoleting — no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- ramblingly — in a rambling manner
- reblocking — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- relabeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- resembling — to be like or similar to.
- scrabbling — to scratch or scrape, as with the claws or hands.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scribbling — to tear apart (wool fibers) in the first stages of carding.
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- signal box — a railway signal tower.
- silverberg — Robert, born 1935, U.S. science-fiction writer.
- single bed — bed for one person
- sleigh bed — a bed resembling a sleigh in shape, with curved boards at the head and foot
- sling-back — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
- slobbering — to let saliva or liquid run from the mouth; slaver; drivel.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- snubbingly — in a snubbing manner