11-letter words containing g, r, b, i
- glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
- goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- 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 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).
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
- impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- inebriating — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- ingenerable — (rare) incapable of being generated or created.
- 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.
- jabberingly — in a jabbering manner
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).