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14-letter words containing g, o, b, s

  • bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
  • by a long shot — People sometimes use the expression by a long shot to emphasize the opinion they are giving.
  • casino banking — an approach to banking which risks losing investors' money in the quest for maximizing profits
  • climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • cross bridging — bridging composed of crisscross pieces of wood.
  • cross-breeding — the process of causing animals to mate with another species, or of causing plants to reproduce with another species
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • energy obesity — the practice of being wasteful of energy in the form of electricity, fossil fuels, etc, in one's day-to-day life
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get one's back — situated at or in the rear: at the back door; back fence.
  • ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • grylloblattids — Plural form of grylloblattid.
  • gyrostabiliser — (British spelling) Alternative form of gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilized — stabilized by means of a gyrostabilizer.
  • gyrostabilizer — a device for stabilizing a seagoing vessel by counteracting its rolling motion from side to side, consisting essentially of a rotating gyroscope weighing about 1 percent of the displacement of the vessel.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
  • jacobite glass — an English drinking glass of the late 17th or early 18th century, engraved with Jacobite mottoes and symbols.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • knowledge base — (artificial intelligence)   A collection of knowledge expressed using some formal knowledge representation language. A knowledge base forms part of a knowledge-based system (KBS).
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
  • macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
  • marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
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