12-letter words containing g, a, b
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- diving board — a springboard.
- dog and bone — a telephone
- donald budge — (John) Donald, 1915–2000, U.S. tennis player.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., issued from 1849 to 1933, equal to 2 eagles or 20 dollars.
- double sugar — disaccharide.
- double-glaze — If someone double-glazes a house or its windows, they fit windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter.
- doubleganger — doppelgänger.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- eager beaver — a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous.
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- egads button — a switch that triggers the destruction in flight of a malfunctioning missile.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exchangeable — Able to be exchanged.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- 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.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.