11-letter words containing d, b, l
- goldenberry — the Cape gooseberry
- 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.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hell-bender — a large salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, of rivers and streams in eastern North America, having a flat, stout body and broad head.
- hellbenders — Plural form of hellbender.
- hereditable — heritable.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- hobbledehoy — an awkward, ungainly youth.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hot-blooded — excitable; impetuous.
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- 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.
- 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.
- immobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilise.
- immobilized — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilize.
- 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 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
- indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
- individable — indivisible
- indivisible — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.