4-letter words containing i, b
- flib — /flib/ (WPI) A meta-number, said to be an integer between 3 and 4. See grix, N.
- frib — a short heavy-conditioned piece of wool removed from a fleece during classing
- gibe — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- gibs — Plural form of gib.
- glib — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- gobi — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- gpib — IEEE 488
- grib — GRid In Binary. The World Meteorological Organization's data format.
- guib — bushbuck.
- hiba — A Japanese conifer with evergreen scalelike leaves that form flattened sprays of foliage, widely planted as an ornamental and yielding durable timber.
- iamb — a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.
- iban — Also called Sea Dayak. a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak.
- ibeu — Independent Bakery Employees Union
- ibew — International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- ibex — any of several wild goats of the genus Capra, inhabiting mountainous regions of Eurasia and North Africa, having long, recurved horns.
- ibfg — Internationaler Bund Freier Gewerkschaften (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)
- ibid — Alternative form of ibid. (\"in the same place\").
- ibis — any of several large wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae, of warm temperate and tropical regions, related to the herons and storks, and characterized by a long, thin, downward-curved bill. Compare sacred ibis.
- ibn- — son of
- ibrd — International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank)
- icbm — intercontinental ballistic missile: a missile with a range greater than 5500 km
- igbo — Ibo.
- igbp — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
- ikbs — intelligent knowledge-based system
- inbd — inboard (on an aircraft, a boat, etc)
- inby — into the house or an inner room; inside; within
- irbm — intermediate range ballistic missile
- isba — the traditional log house of rural Russia, with an unheated entrance room and a single living and sleeping room heated by a clay or brick stove.
- isbl — (language) A mathematical query language.
- isbn — International Standard Book Number
- izba — the traditional log house of rural Russia, with an unheated entrance room and a single living and sleeping room heated by a clay or brick stove.
- jbig — Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group
- jibb — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- jibe — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- jibs — Plural form of jib.
- kibe — a chapped or ulcerated chilblain, especially on the heel.
- kibo — /ki:'boh/ 1. [acronym] Knowledge In, Bullshit Out. A summary of what happens whenever valid data is passed through an organisation (or person) that deliberately or accidentally disregards or ignores its significance. Consider, for example, what an advertising campaign can do with a product's actual specifications. Compare GIGO; see also SNAFU principle. 2. James Parry <[email protected]>, a Usenetter infamous for various surrealist net.pranks and an uncanny, machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned.
- lfib — Label Forwarding Information Base
- libs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lib.
- limb — Astronomy. the edge of the disk of the sun, a moon, or a planet.
- lobi — plural of lobus.
- nabi — a prophet.
- nibs — the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- nimb — A nimbus or halo.
- obie — one of a group of awards given annually, beginning in 1956, by New York City's The Village Voice newspaper for achievement in the off-Broadway theater.
- obis — a long, broad sash tied about the waist over a Japanese kimono.
- obit — Informal. an obituary.
- obvi — (slang) obviously.
- quib — (archaic) A quip or gibe.
- rabi — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.