11-letter words containing a, b, s
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gas bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- gas chamber — an enclosure used for the execution of prisoners by means of a poisonous gas.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gas-bladder — a vesicle or sac containing air.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geodatabase — (geography, computing) A database containing geographical and spatial data.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glass block — a translucent, hollow or solid block of glass for glazing openings or constructing partitions, usually square on the face, with the outer surfaces treated in any of various ways.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-smacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- 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).
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- haberdasher — a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hand-basket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbaskets — Plural form of handbasket.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.