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14-letter words containing o, b, l, i, g

  • building works — construction projects
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • cartilage bone — any bone that develops within cartilage rather than in a fibrous tissue membrane
  • chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
  • chronobiologic — relating to chronobiology
  • climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
  • cobelligerents — Plural form of cobelligerent.
  • cognoscibility — capable of being known.
  • collecting box — a box for the temporary storage of examples or specimens
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colouring book — A colouring book is a book of simple drawings which children can colour in.
  • conglobulation — the act of conglobing
  • cryobiological — of or relating to cryobiology
  • debugging tool — debugger
  • diagnosability — the quality of being diagnosable
  • diagonalisable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalised
  • diagonalizable — (of a square matrix or linear map) able to be diagonalized
  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • discourageable — Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • double digging — a method of digging ground in a series of trenches two spits deep, mixing the soil of the bottom spit with manure, and then transferring the soil from the top spit of one trench to the top spit of the preceding one
  • double glazing — glazing consisting of two thicknesses of glass with a dead air space between them.
  • double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • double-dealing — duplicity; treachery; deception.
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
  • electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
  • engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
  • feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • 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)
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