11-letter words containing b, r, n
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- 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.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- french bean — British. the pod of a green bean or wax bean, eaten as a vegetable.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
- gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
- garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
- garbage man — refuse collector
- garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gibberellin — any of a class of growth hormones occurring in fungi and plants.
- gibberingly — While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.
- gibson girl — the idealized American girl of the 1890s as represented in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
- ginger beer — a soft drink similar to ginger ale but containing more ginger flavor.
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- 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.
- gold bronze — an alloy of about 90 percent copper, 5 percent zinc, 3 percent lead, and 2 percent tin.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- 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.
- grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
- grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
- green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.