11-letter words containing t, b, i
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- finite verb — a verb form that distinguishes person, number, and tense, and also mood or aspect, as opens in She opens the door.
- fire beetle — any of numerous click beetles of the genus Pyrophorus, of tropical America, having luminous reddish or greenish spots on the body.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- fixing bath — a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
- flea-bitten — bitten by a flea or fleas.
- flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footballist — Lb dated A football player.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
- freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- geiger tube — a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.
- geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- give battle — to commence fighting
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- gnotobiosis — an environmental condition in which germfree animals have been inoculated with strains of known microorganisms.
- gnotobiotic — (of germfree animals) inoculated with microorganisms of a given type.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- 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).
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- habitations — Plural form of habitation.