12-letter words containing g, o, b
- coral gables — a city in SE Florida, near Miami.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- 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
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dialogue box — a window that may appear on a VDU display to prompt the user to enter further information or select an option
- disembodying — Present participle of disembody.
- diving board — a springboard.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- dole bludger — a person who collects unemployment benefits but makes no serious effort to get work.
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double fugue — a fugue with two subjects developed simultaneously.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- double-edged — having two cutting edges, as a razor blade.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- ellenborough — Earl of, title of Edward Law. 1780–1871, British colonial administrator: governor general of India (1742–44)
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- foggy bottom — a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.