11-letter words containing b, i, o, g, r
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- buon giorno — good day; hello
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embryologic — Embryological.
- 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.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- 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.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gemfibrozil — An oral drug, one of the fibrates, used to lower lipid levels.
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- 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
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- 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
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- 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)
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- 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.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- 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
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- interrobang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.