13-letter words containing i, b, l, s
- disyllabicity — The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- drinkableness — the quality of being drinkable, the capacity to be drunk, drinkability
- east berliner — a native or inhabitant of the former East Berlin
- east kilbride — an administrative district in the Strathclyde region, in S Scotland. 1300 sq. mi. (3367 sq. km).
- ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
- 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]>.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- 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
- embellishment — A decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive.
- equilibristic — Of or pertaining to equilibristics.
- equitableness — The state or quality of being equitable; equitability.
- establishable — Able to be established.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estimableness — The quality of deserving esteem or regard.
- excitableness — The quality of being excitable, excitability.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- extensibility — The capability of being extended.
- fallibilities — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fever blister — cold sore.
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- 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.
- geissler tube — a sealed glass tube with platinum connections at the ends, containing rarefied gas made luminous by an electrical discharge.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globe thistle — any of various Old World, thistlelike, composite plants of the genus Echinops, having dense heads of tubular blue or white flowers.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heteroblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing a marked difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.