12-letter words containing g, r, b
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground robin — towhee.
- groundbursts — Plural form of groundburst.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- harbingering — Present participle of harbinger.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- honey badger — ratel.
- 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.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- 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)
- inner-tubing — tubing (def 4).
- interbedding — interstratification
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogable — capable of being interrogated
- irish bridge — a paved ford.
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- jackass brig — a two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast with a fore-and-aft mainsail; brigantine.
- jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- jitterbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of jitterbug.
- 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.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour