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13-letter words containing g, o, b, l

  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • blue grosbeak — a grosbeak, Guiraca caerulea, of the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, the male of which is blue with two rusty bars on each wing.
  • body building — the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
  • body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
  • boiling point — The boiling point of a liquid is the temperature at which it starts to change into steam or vapour. For example, the boiling point of water is 100° centigrade.
  • boiling range — A boiling range is the temperature range involved in the distillation of oil, from the start to the time when it evaporates.
  • bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • bolting cloth — a sturdy fabric, usually of fine silk or nylon mesh, used chiefly in serigraphy, embroidery, and as a foundation fabric for wigs.
  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • booking clerk — A booking clerk is a person who sells tickets, especially in a railway station.
  • boole, george — George Boole
  • boolean logic — (logic)   A logic based on Boolean algebra.
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • boroglyceride — any compound containing boric acid and glycerol, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • bowling green — A bowling green is an area of very smooth, short grass on which the game of bowls or lawn bowling is played.
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brazing alloy — a solder fusing at temperatures above 1200°F (650°C).
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • bridging loan — A bridging loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
  • burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
  • burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
  • burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
  • burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
  • butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
  • by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
  • cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
  • carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
  • carriage bolt — a round-headed bolt for timber, threaded along part of its shank, inserted into holes already drilled.
  • categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
  • categorizable — Capable of being categorized.
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • club together — If people club together to do something, they all give money towards the cost of it.
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