13-letter words containing g, r, b, i
- decerebrating — Present participle of decerebrate.
- degradability — susceptible to chemical breakdown.
- designer baby — People sometimes refer to a baby that has developed from an embryo with certain desired characteristics as a designer baby.
- detribalizing — Present participle of detribalize.
- dingleberries — Plural form of dingleberry.
- disagreeables — annoying things
- disambiguator — Anything that serves to disambiguate.
- dischargeable — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- disintegrable — Capable of being disintegrated.
- disobligatory — not obligatory
- disregardable — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
- drainage tube — a tube that drains fluid from an incision or body cavity during surgery
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dry scrubbing — Dry scrubbing is the removal of solid particles from a gas onto a liquid surface, but with a solid discharge.
- edinburgh sml — (EdML) Implementation of the Core language of SML. Byte-code interpreter in C. Ported to Amiga, Atari, Archimedes and IBM PC. Version: 0.44. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
- embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
- embryogenetic — embryogenic
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- ensign-bearer — a soldier whose responsibility was to carry a Company's ensign
- equilibrating — Present participle of equilibrate.
- erin go bragh — Ireland forever
- excalibur bug — (humour, programming) The legendary bug that, despite repeated valliant attempts, none but the true king of all programmers can fix. Named after the sword in the stone in the legend of King Arthur.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.