12-letter words containing i, b, y
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
- habitability — capable of being inhabited.
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- high-ability — (of a student) having a higher than average ability
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hydrobiology — the study of aquatic organisms.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.