12-letter words containing b, l, i, s
- gibberellins — Plural form of gibberellin.
- give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- gullibleness — Gullibility.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- helleborines — Plural form of helleborine.
- heron's-bill — stork's-bill (def 1).
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- illiberalise — to render illiberal
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immobilizers — Plural form of immobilizer.
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impost block — dosseret.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- in sb's life — If you talk about the man or woman in someone's life, you mean the person they are having a relationship with, especially a sexual relationship.
- inaccessible — Unable to be reached.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- inappeasable — unable to be soothed or appeased: inappeasable anger.
- inconsolable — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incunabulist — a person who specialises in incunabula, a collector of incunabula
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefensible — not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.