11-letter words containing i, b, o, g
- bridal gown — a wedding dress
- bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
- bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
- bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- buon giorno — good day; hello
- burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
- chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cognoscible — able to be known or recognized
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- congestible — to fill to excess; overcrowd or overburden; clog: The subway entrance was so congested that no one could move.
- cougar bait — a younger man who is often pursued by older women seeking a sexual relationship: We all agreed he was prime cougar bait.
- cryobiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the effects of very low temperatures on organisms
- dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- disobliging — Deliberately unhelpful; uncooperative.
- diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
- dog biscuit — a hard biscuit for dogs, usually containing ground meat, bones, etc.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
- emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
- emboldening — Present participle of embolden.
- embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
- embryologic — Embryological.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.