13-letter words containing g, o, b, s
- boys' brigade — (in Britain) an organization for boys, founded in 1883, with the aim of promoting discipline and self-respect
- braggadocious — boastful
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
- branded goods — goods that are identifiable as being the product of a particular manufacturer or marketing company
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- bridging shot — a shot inserted in a film to indicate the passage of time between two scenes, as of a series of newspaper headlines or calendar pages being torn off.
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- burglariously — in the manner of a burglar or buglary
- categorisable — Alternative spelling of categorizable.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- congress boot — a high shoe with an elastic insert in each side
- cross bedding — layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification
- crossbreeding — Present participle of crossbreed.
- cryobiologist — A biologist who specializes in cryobiology.
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- diabetologist — a person who studies diabetes
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- draughtboards — Plural form of draughtboard.
- draughtsboard — The board on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
- durable goods — Durable goods or durables are goods such as televisions or cars which are expected to last a long time, and are bought infrequently.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- george w bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glass-blowing — 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.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globetrotters — Plural form of globetrotter.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- go to blazes! — go to hell!
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish