12-letter words containing i, b, m
- gum-benjamin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hillclimbing — (sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.
- hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
- home banking — a system whereby a person at home or in an office can use a computer with a modem to call up information from a bank or to transfer funds electronically
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- homoflexible — Primarily homosexual, but willing to take part in a limited amount of heterosexual activity.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
- icbm address — (networking, humour) (Or "missile address") The form used to register a site with the Usenet mapping project includes a space for longitude and latitude, preferably to seconds-of-arc accuracy. This is actually used for generating geographically-correct maps of Usenet links on a plotter; however, it has become traditional to refer to this as one's "ICBM address" or "missile address", and many people include it in their sig block with that name. (A real missile address would include target altitude.)
- ice climbing — sport: scaling icy cliffs
- illiberalism — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imbibitional — relating to imbibition
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- immobilizers — Plural form of immobilizer.
- immobilizing — Present participle of immobilize.
- immovability — incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary.
- immunoglobin — (immunology, protein) Any protein that functions as an antibody.
- immutability — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- impost block — dosseret.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- imputability — The character of being imputable.
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- inadmissible — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inadmissibly — In an inadmissible way.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incommutably — In an incommutable manner.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.