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7-letter words containing b, g, i

  • gambier — an astringent extract obtained from the leaves and young shoots of a tropical Asian shrub, Uncaria gambir, of the madder family, used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.
  • gambist — a person who plays the viola da gamba
  • gambits — Plural form of gambit.
  • garboil — confusion.
  • gerbils — Plural form of gerbil.
  • gi bill — any of various Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans.
  • gibberd — Sir Frederick. 1908–84, British architect and town planner. His buildings include the Liverpool Roman Catholic cathedral (1960–67) and the Regent's Park Mosque in London (1977). Harlow in the UK and Santa Teresa in Venezuela were built to his plans
  • gibbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gibber.
  • gibbets — Plural form of gibbet.
  • gibbing — Present participle of gib.
  • gibbons — any small, slender, long-armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare.
  • gibbose — Humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations.
  • gibbous — Astronomy. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
  • giblets — The liver, heart, gizzard, and neck of a chicken or other fowl, usually removed before the bird is cooked, and often used to make gravy, stuffing, or soup.
  • giftbox — A box of gifts.
  • gigabit — a measure of storage capacity and data transfer equal to 1 billion (10 9) bits.
  • gilbertCass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
  • gimbals — 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.
  • gimblet — a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
  • givable — Capable of being given.
  • glibber — Comparative form of glib.
  • globing — Present participle of globe.
  • globish — a simplified version of English used by non-native speakers, consisting of the most common words and phrases only
  • globoid — approximately globular.
  • go bail — to act as surety
  • gobbing — Present participle of gob.
  • gobelin — made at the tapestry factory established in Paris in the 15th century by the Gobelins, a French family of dyers and weavers.
  • gobioid — of or resembling a goby.
  • goblins — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
  • gr brit — Great Britain
  • gribble — a small, marine isopod crustacean of the genus Limnoria that destroys submerged timber by boring into it.
  • grimsby — a seaport in Humberside county, in E England at the mouth of the Humber estuary.
  • gt brit — Great Britain
  • gubbins — (slang) Assorted stuff, especially if of little value.
  • gubbish — (jargon)   /guhb'*sh/ (A portmanteau of "garbage" and "rubbish" which may have originated with SF author Philip K. Dick) Garbage; crap; nonsense. "What is all this gubbish?" The opposite portmanteau "rubbage" is also reported.
  • gumboil — a small abscess on the gum, originating in an abscess in the pulp of a tooth.
  • hibbing — a town in NE Minnesota: iron mining.
  • highboy — a tall chest of drawers on legs, usually in two sections set one on top of the other. Compare tallboy, lowboy.
  • hip bag — a bag worn around or attached to the hips
  • hobbing — a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
  • hubbing — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
  • ice bag — a waterproof bag to be filled with ice and applied to the head or another part of the body to be cooled.
  • iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
  • ignobly — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
  • imbuing — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • inbeing — The fact or state of being in; existence in something else.
  • inbring — to confiscate (the belongings of a condemned criminal), to seize by legal authority
  • inglobe — to enclose as in a globe; encompass; fix within a sphere
  • ink bag — a gland near the anus of an octopus or related mollusc that holds fluid ejected into the water for self-concealment
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