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12-letter words containing a, r, b, e

  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • 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.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
  • gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
  • gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
  • gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
  • garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gastarbeiter — guest worker.
  • gebrselassie — Haile (ˈhaɪlɪ). born 1973, Ethiopian athlete; won gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics (1996, 2000) and in four consecutive World Championships (1993–99)
  • 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.
  • georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
  • germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
  • geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
  • gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
  • gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
  • glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
  • global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
  • gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
  • go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
  • great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • 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.
  • grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
  • gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
  • gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
  • haberdashers — Plural form of haberdasher.
  • haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
  • 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.
  • hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
  • half brother — brother (def 2).
  • half-brother — brother (def 2).
  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
  • handbreadths — Plural form of handbreadth.
  • handsbreadth — A small distance.
  • harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
  • harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
  • hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
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