11-letter words containing a, r, c, b
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
- 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.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glacier bay — a national park in SE Alaska, made up of large tidewater glaciers. 4381 sq. mi. (11,347 sq. km).
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- hackberries — Plural form of hackberry.
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- 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.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hypercarbia — (medicine) the condition of having an abnormally high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- ice barrier — the outer margin of the Antarctic ice sheet, which extends beyond the coastline.
- ice-breaker — An ice-breaker is a large ship which sails through frozen waters, breaking the ice as it goes, in order to create a passage for other ships.
- icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- imbrication — an overlapping, as of tiles or shingles.
- imperceable — not pierceable
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- increasable — Pertaining to something that can be increased.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inexecrable — thoroughly execrable; deserving of being cursed or execrated
- inscribable — to address or dedicate (a book, photograph, etc.) informally to a person, especially by writing a brief personal note in or on it.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- intractable — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
- intractably — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- irradicable — ineradicable.
- irradicably — ineradicably
- irrecusable — not to be objected to or rejected.
- irrevocable — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- irrevocably — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- isallobaric — relating to isobars
- ivory black — a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory.
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.