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11-letter words containing i, d, b

  • highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
  • holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
  • hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • hybrid bill — (in Parliament) a public bill to which the standing orders for private business apply; a bill having a general application as well as affecting certain private interests
  • hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
  • hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
  • hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
  • hybridizing — Present participle of hybridize.
  • hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
  • hydrophobia — rabies.
  • hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
  • hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
  • ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
  • ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
  • id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
  • ida b wellsHenry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
  • ida tarbellIda Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
  • idiot board — a mechanical apparatus, as a projector or a continuous roll of paper, for prompting a performer during a program.
  • ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
  • immedicable — incurable.
  • immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
  • immobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilise.
  • immobilized — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilize.
  • immune body — antibody
  • in bed with — in collusion with
  • in/into bud — When a tree or plant is in bud or has come into bud, it has buds on it.
  • inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
  • inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
  • inadvisably — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
  • income bond — a bond without a guaranteed amount of interest payment, such payment being usually made only out of earnings.
  • incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
  • indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
  • indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
  • indian bean — catalpa.
  • indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
  • indicatable — That can be indicated.
  • indie label — an independent recording company
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
  • individable — indivisible
  • indivisible — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
  • indivisibly — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
  • indominable — Lb alveolar intervocal flapping misspelling of indomitable.
  • indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • indomitably — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
  • indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
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