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

  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • cobble together — If you say that someone has cobbled something together, you mean that they have made or produced it roughly or quickly.
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • congealableness — the quality of being congealable
  • constable glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century, having a heavy foot, a tall body, and a capacity of 1 quart (0.946 liters).
  • copenhagen blue — a greyish-blue colour
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • cybertechnology — Computer technology, especially that which involves the Internet or cyberspace.
  • de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
  • deoxyhemoglobin — 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.
  • developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of two variables and that requires two applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • double knitting — a widely used medium thickness of knitting wool
  • double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • double printing — the exposure of the same positive photographic emulsion to two or more negatives, resulting in the superimposition of multiple images after development
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
  • embryologically — Regarding embryology.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • football league — highest-level soccer competition
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
  • gibson, william — William Gibson
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
  • gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
  • go to the block — to be beheaded
  • golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
  • great rebellion — English Civil War.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
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