14-letter words containing l, o, b, i
- forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- global dimming — a decrease in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface of the earth, believed to be caused by pollution in the atmosphere
- global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
- global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- globalizations — Plural form of globalization.
- golden jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- goliath beetle — any very large tropical scarabaeid beetle of the genus Goliathus, esp G. giganteus of Africa, which may grow to a length of 20 centimetres
- google bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- google-bombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- 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.
- hamilton basso — Hamilton, 1904–64, U.S. journalist and novelist.
- helium balloon — a balloon that is filled with helium and rises up into the air if not held
- hemimetabolism — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
- hit the bottle — a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
- hobbledehoyish — of or like a hobbledehoy
- holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
- holometabolism — The complete metamorphosis of an insect.
- horizontal bar — on a bar chart
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hydrobiologist — someone who studies or specializes in hydrobiology
- hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- ibm compatible — (computer) A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
- immobilisation — Alternative spelling of immobilization.
- immobilization — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
- immunoglobulin — any of several classes of structurally related proteins that function as antibodies or receptors and are found in plasma and other body fluids and in the membrane of certain cells. Compare IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- in one's blood — If a quality or talent is in your blood, it is part of your nature, and other members of your family have it too.
- inapproachable — not approachable.
- inclusion body — a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.
- incommunicable — incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.