11-letter words containing t, b, g, s
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- geodatabase — (geography, computing) A database containing geographical and spatial data.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
- gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- 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).
- green bytes — (jargon) (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- intangibles — Plural form of intangible.
- job costing — a method of cost accounting by which the total cost of a given unit or quantity is determined by computing the costs that go into making a product as it moves through the manufacturing process.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
- megaloblast — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.
- misdoubting — Present participle of misdoubt.
- munsterberg — Hugo [hyoo-goh;; German hoo-goh] /ˈhyu goʊ;; German ˈhu goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1916, German psychologist and philosopher in the U.S.
- musette bag — Also called musette bag. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
- mystery bag — a sausage
- negotiables — Plural form of negotiable.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obligations — Plural form of obligation.
- obligements — Plural form of obligement.
- obsagittate — (botany, of leaves) Of a reverse sagittate shape, with two pointed lobes extending at the apex.
- obsignation — the action or process of certifying by means of, or as if with, a seal or a mark of ratification
- obsignatory — (obsolete) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
- obstructing — Present participle of obstruct.
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- plastic bag — carrier bag, sack made of plastic
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- sailboating — the sport of using a sailing boat
- scambaiting — the practice of pretending to fall for fraudulent online schemes in order to waste the time of the perpetrators
- sea bathing — the activity of swimming in the sea
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- singability — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spartanburg — a city in NW South Carolina.
- spitsbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzbergen — a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, N of and belonging to Norway. 24,293 sq. mi. (62,920 sq. km).
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.