12-letter words containing t, i, n, b
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- endosymbiont — (ecology) An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- enterobiasis — a disease, common in children, caused by infestation of the large intestine with nematodes of the genus Enterobius, esp the pinworm (E. vermicularis)
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- 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
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- 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.
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- 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).
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.
- 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.
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- gentian blue — a purplish-blue colour
- geobotanical — of or relating to geobotany
- gibraltarian — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- gnotobiotics — the study of organisms living in germ-free conditions or when inoculated with known microorganisms
- gold-beating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- habilimented — Clothed.
- habilitating — Present participle of habilitate.
- habilitation — to clothe or dress.