11-letter words containing t, e, b, i
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- 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.
- 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.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- 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.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- 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
- gilt bronze — ormolu (def 2).
- give battle — to commence fighting
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- 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).
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- habiliments — Plural form of habiliment.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- have it bad — suffer disadvantage
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- 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.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- if-come bet — pyramid bet.
- illimitable — incapable of being limited; limitless; boundless.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- immitigable — unable to be mitigated; not to be mitigated.