12-letter words containing g, l, i, b, e, n
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulangerite — a bluish lead-gray mineral, lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5 Sb 4 S 11 , a minor ore of lead.
- bounce light — Also, bounce lighting. light that is bounced off a reflective surface onto the subject in order to achieve a softer lighting effect.
- bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- boxing glove — Boxing gloves are big padded gloves worn for boxing.
- brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
- bush singlet — a black woollen singlet often worn by farm labourers
- cable-laying — involved in or connected to the activity of laying cables
- cablecasting — relating to broadcasting by cable
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- debilitating — tending to weaken or enfeeble
- debut single — the first single produced by a particular singer or band
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- demobilizing — Present participle of demobilize.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dining table — a table, especially one seating several persons, where meals are served and eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.