12-letter words containing t, i, e, b, r
- enterobiasis — a disease, common in children, caused by infestation of the large intestine with nematodes of the genus Enterobius, esp the pinworm (E. vermicularis)
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equilibrists — Plural form of equilibrist.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- exacerbating — Present participle of exacerbate.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exhibitioner — A student who has been awarded an exhibition (scholarship).
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- 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.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gastarbeiter — guest worker.
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- hairsbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- haricot bean — Haricot beans are small white beans that are eaten as a vegetable. They are often sold dried rather than fresh.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- heat barrier — thermal barrier.
- hedenbergite — a contact metamorphic mineral of the pyroxene family, calcium ferrous silicate, CaFe(SiO 3) 2 , that forms black prismatic crystals in crystalline limestone.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.