12-letter words containing g, o, b, s
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- gooseberries — Plural form of gooseberry.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.