12-letter words containing a, b, i, n
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gambling man — adult male who gambles
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- gang-banging — a series of acts of often forcible sexual intercourse engaged in by several persons successively with one passive partner.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gibraltarian — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- 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.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- grecian bend — (especially in the late 19th century) a posture or walk, often considered fashionable, in which the body is bent forward from the waist.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- habilitating — Present participle of habilitate.
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.
- habitational — a place of residence; dwelling; abode.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.