12-letter words containing b, e, g, i, n
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- 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.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
- 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.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gibberellins — Plural form of gibberellin.
- gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
- gingerbreads — Plural form of gingerbread.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
- global index — (filename extension) (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- 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.
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.