11-letter words containing g, r, b
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- head-banger — metalhead.
- headbangers — Plural form of headbanger.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- 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)
- herb garden — where herbs are grown
- 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.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- 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.
- landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- large black — a heavy black breed of pig with long lop ears: used for crossbreeding
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- libertinage — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.