11-letter words containing d, i, b, e
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- full-bodied — of full strength, flavor, richness, etc.: full-bodied wine; full-bodied writing.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gender bias — sexual discrimination
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- 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.
- 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.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- 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.
- 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.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- 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.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- 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.
- 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.
- immune body — antibody
- in bed with — in collusion with
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- income bond — a bond without a guaranteed amount of interest payment, such payment being usually made only out of earnings.
- incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.