11-letter words containing a, b, r, i
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierophobia — an irrational fear of sacred objects or people
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- ibritumomab — A monoclonal antibody which is linked with yttrium-90 as the drug ibritumomab tiuxetan.