12-letter words containing g, o, l, d, b
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
- good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- mindboggling — That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out; bewildering; mystifying.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- nondelegable — Not delegable.
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
- reynoldsburg — a town in central Ohio.
- sailboarding — windsurfing.
- shoulder bag — a handbag with shoulder strap attached.
- shoulder-bag — A shoulder-bag is a bag that has a long strap so that it can be carried on a person's shoulder.
- signal board — a board for displaying electrically transmitted signals and indicating their source.
- tongue-blade — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
- undoubtingly — in an undoubting manner
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.