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11-letter words containing g, o, b

  • overbooking — Present participle of overbook.
  • overbridges — Plural form of overbridge.
  • overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
  • oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
  • oxygen debt — the body's oxygen deficiency resulting from strenuous physical activity.
  • packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • phagophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of swallowing or eating
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • pig boiling — wet puddling.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
  • programable — capable of being programmed.
  • prolongable — able to be lengthened
  • public good — benefit of all people
  • pyroballogy — the study of artillery
  • quaking bog — a bog formed of peat or woven rushes and shrubs that forms over water or soft mud and shakes when walked upon.
  • raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
  • rex begonia — a plant, Begonia rex, native to India, having wrinkled, variegated leaves and thick, hairy stems, and cultivated in many varieties.
  • riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • road bridge — a bridge for road traffic
  • robber frog — any of numerous small frogs of the genera Eleutherodactylus and Hylactophryne, living chiefly in the American tropics.
  • robing room — a room in a palace, court, legislature, etc, where official robes of office are put on
  • rod bearing — a bearing in the metal shaft that transmits power in axial reciprocating motion
  • root bridge — (communications, hardware, networking)   A bridge which continuously transmits network topology information to other bridges, using the spanning tree protocol, in order to notify all other bridges on the network when topology changes are required. This means that a network is able to reconfigure itself whenever a network link (e.g. another bridge) fails, so an alternative path can be found. The presence of a root bridge also prevents loops from forming in the network. The root bridge is where the paths that frames take through the network they are assigned. It should be located centrally on the network to provide the shortest path to other links on the network. Unlike other bridges, the root bridge always forwards frames out over all of its ports. Every network should only have one root bridge. It should have the lowest bridge ID number.
  • rowing boat — rowboat.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rugby union — a form of rugby football played between teams of 15 players
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • shabbas goy — a gentile who performs tasks for Jews in the home or synagogue on the Sabbath or on a holy day that are forbidden Jews on such occasions, as turning on the lights or heat.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • signal book — a book containing the signals to be used for sending messages to other boats
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • smoking ban — the prohibition of smoking cigarettes, etc in public places
  • smorgasbord — a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
  • snobography — an account or description of snobs
  • snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
  • snowballing — a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • soil boring — Soil boring is a technique used to survey soil by taking several shallow cores out of the sediment. It is used when a drilling jacket or jack-up rig is to be supported on the soil.
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
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