11-letter words containing b, o, g, i
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- 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.
- galeophobia — The fear of sharks.
- 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.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
- germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
- germophobic — Morbidly afraid of germs.
- 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.
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- globalising — Present participle of globalise.
- globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
- globefishes — Plural form of globefish.
- 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.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- 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.
- 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.
- gossypiboma — (surgery) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient's body during surgery.
- 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.
- gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
- gymnophobia — An inordinate fear or hatred of being naked, and possibly nudity or nudists and naturists.
- haemoglobin — (protein) alternative spelling of hemoglobin.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- 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)
- 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.
- higgs boson — a hypothetical type of heavy, electrically neutral particle with zero spin.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.