11-letter words containing b, a, i, l
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
- 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.
- give battle — to commence fighting
- 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.
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- 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
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- 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.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- hangability — the ability to be hanged
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- heliophobia — Fear of sunlight.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- highballing — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hoplophobia — (pejorative, rare) The fear of guns.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- illaqueable — capable of being ensnared
- illiberally — In an illiberal manner.