12-letter words containing g, o, b
- good ol' boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- good old boy — a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
- gooseberries — Plural form of gooseberry.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- graphophobia — Fear or dislike of writing.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey badger — ratel.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honor bright — upon my honor; really and truly: I did sweep the floor, honor bright.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immobilizing — Present participle of immobilize.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incognizable — Not cognizable; incapable of being recognised.
- incorrigible — not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
- incorrigibly — 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)
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogable — capable of being interrogated
- jacobinizing — Present participle of jacobinize.
- job printing — commercial printing of such items as letterheads, circulars, invitations, etc.
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- kiss goodbye — to kiss in taking leave
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.