11-letter words containing g, t, b
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- goblet cell — a type of epithelial cell that secretes mucin, so called after its shape.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gold beetle — any of several beetles having a golden luster, as a chrysomelid, Metriona bicolor, that feeds on morning glories and roses.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- green beret — a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- greenbottle — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- 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.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
- guttae band — regula.
- 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
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- halo blight — a disease of plants, characterized by small, necrotic leaf or fruit lesions surrounded by a yellowish, halolike band, caused by any of several bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas.
- hangability — the ability to be hanged
- haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- imbricating — Present participle of imbricate.
- immitigable — unable to be mitigated; not to be mitigated.
- immitigably — In an immitigable manner.
- incogitable — Not cogitable; inconceivable.
- inebriating — to make drunk; intoxicate.
- infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
- intangibles — Plural form of intangible.
- 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.
- izetbegovic — Alija [ah-lee-juh] /ɑˈli dʒə/ (Show IPA), 1925–2003, Bosnian politician: president of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1990–96.
- jew-baiting — active anti-Semitism.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- kerb weight — the weight of a motor car without occupants, luggage, etc