13-letter words containing g, l, i, b
- exobiological — Of or pertaining to exobiology; alien.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- 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
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- 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.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- 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.
- gibble-gabble — senseless chatter.
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- 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.
- gram-variable — of or relating to bacteria that stain irregularly with Gram's stain, being neither Gram-positive nor Gram-negative.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- great lobelia — a North American plant, Lobelia siphilitica, having long, showy clusters of blue flowers.
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- hill climbing — Computer
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- imaginability — The quality of being imaginable.
- immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
- incognoscible — (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
- incorrigibles — Plural form of incorrigible.