11-letter words containing a, n, b, r
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
- garbage man — refuse collector
- garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- 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.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- 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.
- glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
- 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.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- 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.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- 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 bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.