13-letter words containing b, i, g, y
- cycle billing — a method of billing customers at monthly intervals in which statements are prepared on each working day of the month and mailed to a designated fraction of the total number of customers.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- digestibility — capable of being digested; readily digested.
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- fatiguability — Alternative form of fatigability.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- hybrid vigour — the increased size, strength, etc, of a hybrid as compared to either of its parents
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypnobirthing — the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery
- imaginability — The quality of being imaginable.
- immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- ineligibility — not eligible; not permitted or suitable: Employees are ineligible in this contest.
- intangibility — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
- integrability — capable of being integrated, as a mathematical function or differential equation.
- king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- negligibility — so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: The extra expenses were negligible.
- negotiability — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- non-ambiguity — doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- nonobligatory — Not obligatory; not required; optional.
- objurgatively — In an objurgative or reproving manner.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- oxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
- photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
- piggyback car — a flatcar designed to accommodate containers or highway truck trailers.
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- space biology — exobiology.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.