9-letter words containing i, n, e, b
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forebrain — Also called prosencephalon. the anterior 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 diencephalon and telencephalon.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gabaonite — Gibeonite.
- gabardine — Also, gaberdine. a firm, tightly woven fabric of worsted, cotton, polyester, or other fiber, with a twill weave.
- gabbiness — The quality of being gabby.
- gaberdine — Also, gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
- gabionade — a row of gabions submerged in a waterway, stream, river, etc, to control the flow of water
- gabionage — a structure or fortification built with gabions
- genoa jib — a large triangular jib sail, often with a foot that extends as far aft as the clew of the mainsail
- gerbiling — Present participle of gerbil.
- gibbering — to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly.
- 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.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- 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
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- 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.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbuement — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- in-basket — in-box.
- inaffable — Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
- inaidable — incapable of being helped or aided; beyond help
- inaudible — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- inbalance — Alternative spelling of imbalance.