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12-letter words containing g, e, r, b, i

  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
  • grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
  • harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
  • helping verb — auxiliary verb.
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
  • herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
  • iambographer — a person who writes iambs
  • incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
  • ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
  • inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
  • interbedding — interstratification
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
  • interrogable — capable of being interrogated
  • irish bridge — a paved ford.
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
  • jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
  • liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
  • liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
  • light breeze — a wind of 4–7 miles per hour (2–3 m/sec). Compare breeze1 (def 2).
  • light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • linebreeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
  • linking verb — copula (def 2).
  • little grebe — a small grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis, of the Old World.
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • main bearing — one of the bearings in an internal combustion engine upon which the crankshaft rotates
  • marriage bed — the bed in which a married couple sleep together
  • marriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
  • masterbating — Misspelling of masturbating.
  • mesabi range — a range of low hills in NE Minnesota, noted for major iron-ore deposits mined by the open-pit method.
  • microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
  • microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
  • murrumbidgee — a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1050 miles (1690 km) long.
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