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13-letter words containing b, i, l, n, g

  • child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
  • chronobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the periodicity occurring in living organisms
  • clearing bank — The clearing banks are the main banks in Britain. Clearing banks use the central clearing house in London to deal with other banks.
  • clearing bath — any solution for removing material from the surface of a photographic image, as silver halide, metallic silver, or a dye or stain.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing lily — a climbing lily of the genus Gloriosa, native to Africa and Asia, having showy red and yellow flowers.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
  • coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
  • cobelligerent — a country fighting in a war on the side of another country
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
  • coloring book — A coloring book is a book of simple drawings which children can color in.
  • confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
  • cooling board — a plank for laying out a corpse.
  • cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet to frighten or upset someone, usually by sending them unpleasant messages.
  • cyberslacking — (informal) Use of the Internet during work hours for unrelated tasks.
  • cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
  • cycle billing — a method of billing customers at monthly intervals in which statements are prepared on each working day of the month and mailed to a designated fraction of the total number of customers.
  • dabbling duck — any of numerous shallow-water ducks, especially of the genus Anas, that typically feed by upending and dabbling (contrasted with diving duck).
  • dangleberries — Plural form of dangleberry.
  • demothballing — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
  • desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
  • destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
  • destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
  • detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
  • dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
  • disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
  • disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
  • disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
  • disobligation — the state of being without obligation
  • disobligement — disobligation
  • disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
  • diving beetle — any of numerous predaceous water beetles of the family Dytiscidae, having the body adapted for swimming.
  • double-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work in both directions, fluid being admitted alternately to opposite ends of the cylinders. Compare single-acting.
  • drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
  • eco-labelling — the practice or system of using eco-labels
  • edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
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