12-letter words containing g, r, e, b, o
- globetrotter — a person who travels regularly or frequently to countries all over the world.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
- go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- gooseberries — Plural form of gooseberry.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- greenbottles — Plural form of greenbottle.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- herringboned — Simple past tense and past participle of herringbone.
- herringbones — Plural form of herringbone.
- honey badger — ratel.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- incorrigible — 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)
- interborough — between boroughs.
- interrobangs — Plural form of interrobang.
- interrogable — capable of being interrogated
- 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.
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- light bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- messageboard — Alternative spelling of message board.
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- moneygrubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- munro-bagger — a person who climbs as many Munros as possible
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- neighbouring — (British, Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.
- nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- nonbreathing — not breathing
- north bergen — a township in NE New Jersey.
- oberammergau — a village in S Germany, SW of Munich: famous for the passion play performed there every ten years.
- objecteering — (programming, tool) An object-oriented design tool from Softeam, based on the Class Relation Methodology, with C++ code generation.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.