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12-letter words containing n, i, o, b

  • 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
  • exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
  • exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
  • exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
  • exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
  • exprobration — the act of reproaching
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • 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
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
  • fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
  • 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.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
  • fission bomb — atomic bomb.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
  • forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
  • fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
  • gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
  • geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
  • georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • glassblowing — 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.
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
  • gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
  • gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
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