12-letter words containing r, i, b, g, a
- cabriole leg — a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
- cantabrigian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University
- carbonadoing — Present participle of carbonado.
- cardigan bay — an inlet of St George's Channel, on the W coast of Wales
- carriageable — (of a road, etc) able to be travelled in a carriage
- charbroiling — Present participle of charbroil.
- childbearing — Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- chinning bar — a piece of equipment used for doing pull-ups
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- coal-burning — fuelled by burning coal
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- corbie gable — a gable having corbie-steps
- crossbanding — a veneer border, as on furniture, with its grain at right angles to the grain of the adjacent wood
- crossbarring — stripes, esp those of an animal
- cybercasting — the broadcasting of news, entertainment, etc., using the Internet, specifically the World Wide Web.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- deliberating — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- diagrammable — able to be diagrammed or representable by a diagram
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- disagreeable — contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.
- disagreeably — In a disagreeable manner.
- disembarking — Present participle of disembark.
- disembrangle — to disentangle (a person or thing)
- diving board — a springboard.
- ear-grabbing — (of music) immediately capturing and holding the attention of listeners
- early blight — a disease of plants characterized by leaf spotting, defoliation, and stunted growth, caused by any of several fungi, as Alternaria solani or Cercospora apii.
- embarrassing — Causing embarrassment.
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- 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.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- 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.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- garbological — Of or relating to garbology.
- garlic bread — baguette toasted with garlic and butter
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- 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)