9-letter words containing i, n, b
- gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibeonite — one of the inhabitants of Gibeon, who were condemned by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. Josh. 9.
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- grabbings — Plural form of grabbing.
- grabbling — Present participle of grabble.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland or its inhabitants; Irish.
- hibernize — to hibernicize
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindberry — a raspberry
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- ibn arabi — ("Animator of the Religion") 1165–1240, Islamic philosopher, theologian, and mystic.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- iceblinks — Plural form of iceblink.
- ignitable — to set on fire; kindle.
- ignitible — Capable of being ignited.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- ill-being — state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbedding — embedding.
- imbosking — Present participle of imbosk.
- imbrangle — embrangle.