12-letter words containing g, e, t, b
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- diabetogenic — causing or producing diabetes
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disambiguate — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- double agent — a person who spies on a country while pretending to spy for it.
- double-digit — of or denoting a percentage greater than ten.
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- 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.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- 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.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gamboge tree — any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, esp G. hanburyi, that yield this resin: family Clusiaceae
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gemel bottle — a bottle consisting of two flasks set side by side with the necks curving in opposite directions.
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- get a bun on — to become drunk
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- 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.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heating bill — a bill for the supply of energy to heat a building
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.