11-letter words containing n, i, r, e, b
- gibberingly — While gibbering; with wild, incoherent speech.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- ginger beer — a soft drink similar to ginger ale but containing more ginger flavor.
- gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gooney bird — any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross and the Laysan albatross, occurring on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
- grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- greenbriers — Plural form of greenbrier.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- hairbrained — giddy; reckless.
- harbingered — Simple past tense and past participle of harbinger.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- harebrained — giddy; reckless.
- hebephrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by emotionless, incongruous, or silly behavior, intellectual deterioration, and hallucinations, frequently beginning insidiously during adolescence.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- herringbone — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernating — Present participle of hibernate.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- highbinders — Plural form of highbinder.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- icebreaking — Serving the purpose of breaking ice.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- impregnable — susceptible to impregnation, as an egg.
- impregnably — In an impregnable manner; in a manner to defy attack.
- in a breeze — with little or no effort; easily
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- inalterable — unalterable.
- inalterably — In an inalterable way.
- inavertible — Not avertible.
- incoercible — incapable of being coerced or compelled.
- incombering — Present participle of incomber.
- increasable — Pertaining to something that can be increased.
- incrossbred — of or relating to the progeny that result from crossing inbred lines or varieties.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inebriating — to make drunk; intoxicate.