13-letter words containing n, i, b, l
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- generalisable — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of generalizable.
- generalizable — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- germinability — the degree of ability of a seed to germinate or sprout.
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- globalization — the act of globalizing, or extending to other or all parts of the world: the globalization of manufacturing.
- globetrotting — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- gnu c library — (library) (glibc) The run-time library for the GNU C compiler, gcc, and others. glibc is the source code for libc.a. It is maintained separately from the compilers and is a superset of ANSI C and POSIX.1 and a large subset of POSIX.2. Mailing list: <[email protected]> (bugs).
- 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.
- gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
- 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.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- helianthine b — methyl orange.
- hill climbing — Computer
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honourability — A state or condition or being honourable.
- hoodman-blind — blindman's buff.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- i'll be bound — I am sure (something) is true
- illiberalness — The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
- imaginability — The quality of being imaginable.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- immunobiology — the study of the immune response and the biological aspects of immunity to disease.
- 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 cold blood — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
- 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-capable of — not capable.
- inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.
- inappreciably — In an inappreciable manner.
- inassimilable — That cannot be assimilated.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
- incapableness — The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
- incognoscible — (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
- incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.