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12-letter words containing e, l, b, i

  • fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
  • flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
  • forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
  • formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
  • fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • fribble away — to use wastefully
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
  • gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
  • garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
  • gebrselassie — Haile (ˈhaɪlɪ). born 1973, Ethiopian athlete; won gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics (1996, 2000) and in four consecutive World Championships (1993–99)
  • geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
  • gender-blind — not discriminating on the basis of gender, or not making a distinction between the sexes
  • gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
  • generability — capable of being generated or produced.
  • gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
  • geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
  • gibberellins — Plural form of gibberellin.
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
  • glazing bead — a convex molding nailed against the edge of a pane of glass to hold it in place.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
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