12-letter words containing l, a, b, r
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gebrselassie — Haile (ˈhaɪlɪ). born 1973, Ethiopian athlete; won gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics (1996, 2000) and in four consecutive World Championships (1993–99)
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- gibraltarian — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- global reach — When people talk about the global reach of a company or industry, they mean its ability to have customers in many different parts of the world.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- griddlebread — bread or cake made on a griddle
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- gubernacular — relating to a gubernaculum
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- hardscrabble — providing or yielding meagerly in return for much effort; demanding or unrewarding: the hardscrabble existence of mountainside farmers.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
- hedda gabler — a play (1890) by Henrik Ibsen.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexobarbital — a barbiturate with hypnotic and sedative properties
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.