14-letter words containing r, o, b, l
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- double bedroom — a large bedroom
- double deckers — (jargon) Married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
- double dresser — a dresser having two long drawers across its width for most of its height.
- double dribble — an infraction, resulting in loss of possession of the ball, occurring either when a player uses both hands simultaneously when dribbling or when a player interrupts a dribble by holding the ball momentarily in one or both hands.
- double drummer — a type of cicada
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- double harness — harness for a pair of horses.
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- double measure — A double measure is a drink that is twice the normal measure.
- double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
- double-crosser — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
- doubly serrate — biserrate
- dragon's blood — a deep-red, water-insoluble resin exuding from the fruit of a palm, Daemonorops draco, of the Malay Archipelago, used chiefly in the preparation of varnishes and in photoengraving for protecting certain areas of the metal plate from the acid.
- draw-out table — draw table.
- draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
- dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
- electrobiology — (physics, biology) The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- engine trouble — malfunction of a vehicle's engine
- erythroblastic — Relating to erythroblasts.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- 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
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- 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.
- fourfold block — a block having four pulleys or sheaves. Compare block (def 11).
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- garboard plank — the bottommost plank of a vessel's hull
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.
- ghetto blaster — a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.
- global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
- 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.
- globe amaranth — a plant, Gomphrena globosa, native to the Old World tropics, having dense heads of variously colored flowers that retain their color when cut.
- golden warbler — yellow warbler.
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- goose barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- 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.