14-letter words containing g, o, b, l
- single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- sounding-block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
- starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
- symbolic logic — a modern development of formal logic employing a special notation or symbolism capable of manipulation in accordance with precise rules.
- tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- to sb's liking — If something is to your liking, it suits your interests, tastes, or wishes.
- tubal ligation — a method of permanent sterilization for women, involving the surgical sealing of the fallopian tubes to prevent the ovum from passing from the ovary to the uterus.
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
- vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
- viola da gamba — an old musical instrument of the viol family, held on or between the knees: superseded by the modern violoncello; bass viol.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- william gibson — (person) Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
- xenobiological — Of or pertaining to xenobiology.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- zero balancing — a therapy involving the manipulation of the patient's skeletal structure in order to restore the balance of energy, relieve pain, and maintain well-being