11-letter words containing g, e, t, b, r
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
- garter belt — an undergarment of cloth or elastic, with attached garters, worn by women to hold up stockings.
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- geiger tube — a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- inebriating — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- interrobang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
- libertinage — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- light bread — white bread.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- merit badge — an insignia or device granted by the Boy Scouts, worn especially on a uniform to indicate special achievement.
- munsterberg — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; German hoo-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; German ˈhu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1916, German psychologist and philosopher in the U.S.
- mystery bag — a sausage
- northbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overbetting — the activity or practice of betting more than the usual or permitted amount
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- range table — one of a number of identical small tables that can be used together to form a single table.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- regrettably — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.