12-letter words containing n, i, b, l
- double-blind — of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for eliminating subjective bias from the test results.
- double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- driving belt — a belt that carries movement from an engine or moving part to another moving part
- east bengali — of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants
- edible canna — a South American and West Indian herb, Canna edulis, having large sheathing leaves, red flowers, and edible rhizomes.
- edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
- elaborations — Plural form of elaboration.
- elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- eligibleness — Eligibility.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- embellishing — Present participle of embellish.
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- enviableness — Enviability.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.