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

  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • 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
  • cartridge belt — a belt with pockets for cartridge clips or loops for cartridges
  • chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
  • chronobiologic — relating to chronobiology
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • 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 irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • 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.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • 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.
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • 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.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • 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.
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