13-letter words containing i, n, b
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- finback whale — rorqual
- finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gender binary — a classification system consisting of two genders, male and female.
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- genre-busting — not conforming to established patterns, styles, etc
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- gingerbreaded — flavoured with gingerbread
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- going begging — If you say that something is going begging, you mean that it is available but no one is using it or accepting it.
- good-neighbor — characterized by friendly political relations and mutual aid between countries.
- googlebombing — an effort to move a website to the top of search-engine results for a particular word or phrase, by creating a large number of links that contain this search text.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grave-robbing — a person who steals valuables from graves and tombs: Graverobbers had emptied the Mayan tomb before archaeologists could examine its contents.
- great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
- great britain — an island of NW Europe, separated from the mainland by the English Channel and the North Sea: since 1707 the name has applied politically to England, Scotland, and Wales. 88,139 sq. mi. (228,280 sq. km).
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- guinea-bissau — a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Capital: Bissau.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.