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13-letter words containing i, n, e, b

  • 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
  • glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
  • globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
  • 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.
  • handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • hardenability — The quality or degree of being hardenable.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
  • helianthine b — methyl orange.
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herborization — the act or process of herborizing
  • hessian boots — a knee-high tasseled boot, fashionable in England in the early 19th century.
  • hiberno-saxon — having the characteristics of both the Irish and English; Anglo-Irish.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
  • housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
  • husking (bee) — cornhusking (sense 2)
  • hyacinth bean — an Old World tropical vine, Dolichos lablab, of the legume family, having purple or white flowers and black or white seeds in a papery, beaked pod.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
  • illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
  • immunosorbent — an insoluble surface to which a specific antibody is attached for the purpose of removing the corresponding antigen from a solution or suspension.
  • immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
  • implementable — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • in one's book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
  • in sb's stead — If you do something in someone's stead, you replace them and do it instead of them.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • in-observance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.
  • inappreciably — In an inappreciable manner.
  • inassimilable — That cannot be assimilated.
  • inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
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