11-letter words containing b, i, n, g, o
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
- emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- 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.
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- 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.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- 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
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gum benzoin — 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.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
- hob-jobbing — the work or activities of a hobjobber
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers