11-letter words containing d, a, i, b
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- handbagging — an assault with a handbag
- hang behind — to remain in a place after others have left; linger
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hard-bodied — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- headbanging — rhythmical moving of the head up and down in dancing to heavy metal
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hereditable — heritable.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- idiot board — a mechanical apparatus, as a projector or a continuous roll of paper, for prompting a performer during a program.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- immedicable — incurable.
- immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisably — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian bean — catalpa.
- indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
- indicatable — That can be indicated.
- indie label — an independent recording company
- individable — indivisible
- indominable — Lb alveolar intervocal flapping misspelling of indomitable.
- indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- indomitably — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- indubitable — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- indubitably — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.