10-letter words containing g, o, b, l
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- gambolling — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- globalised — Simple past tense and past participle of globalise.
- globalized — to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry.
- globe-trot — If someone spends their time globe-trotting, they spend a lot of time travelling to different parts of the world.
- globulites — Plural form of globulite.
- glory bush — a shrub, Tibouchina urvilleana, native to Brazil, having showy purple flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- god bless! — may God bestow blessings on you
- goggle-box — a television set.
- gold basis — a gold standard as a basis for prices.
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldberger — Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.
- golden boy — a man or boy who is especially popular and successful
- golgi body — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- googlebomb — 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.
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- hemiglobin — methemoglobin.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- hobblingly — in a hobbling manner
- hobgoblins — Plural form of hobgoblin.
- ignobility — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- ill-boding — foreboding evil; inauspicious; unlucky: ill-boding stars.
- imbroglios — Plural form of imbroglio.
- joe bloggs — an average or typical man
- jugal bone — (in humans) cheekbone (def 1).
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- legoglobin — leghemoglobin.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- 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.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- longbenton — a town in N England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear. Pop: 34 878 (2001)
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- 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
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- lowballing — the practice of offering a customer a deceptively low price