12-letter words containing g, r, b, i
- 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.
- contributing — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- corn bunting — a heavily built European songbird, Emberiza calandra, with a streaked brown plumage: family Emberizidae (buntings)
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cryoglobulin — an abnormal immunoglobulin, present in the blood in certain diseases, that precipitates below about 10°C, obstructing small blood vessels in the fingers and toes
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- denbighshire — a county of N Wales: split between Clwyd and Gwynedd in 1974; reinstated with different boundaries in 1996: borders the Irish Sea, with the Cambrian Mountains in the south: chiefly agricultural. Administrative centre: Ruthin. Pop: 94 900 (2003 est). Area: 844 sq km (327 sq miles)
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disburdening — Present participle of disburden.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- dismembering — Present participle of dismember.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- disturbingly — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- diving board — a springboard.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- 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.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- embourgeoise — to make bourgeois
- embroidering — Present participle of embroider.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
- 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.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding 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.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong