12-letter words containing y, a, b
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- gene library — a collection of gene clones that represents the genetic material of an organism: used in genetic engineering
- generability — capable of being generated or produced.
- georgian bay — the NE part of Lake Huron, in Ontario, Canada. 6000 sq. mi. (15,500 sq. km).
- geyser basin — an area containing a group of geysers.
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- graybar land — (jargon) The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the grey bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for hours, waiting for that CAD rendering".
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- grizzly bear — a large North American brown bear, Ursus (arctos) horribilis, with coarse, gray-tipped brown fur, once widespread in the western part of the continent as far south as northern Mexico but now restricted to some regions of Alaska, western Canada, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains: a threatened species except in Alaska.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haberdashery — a haberdasher's shop.
- habitability — capable of being inhabited.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hare wallaby — a wallaby of the genus Lagorchestes
- hatchability — to bring forth (young) from the egg.
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
- herbicidally — from a herbicidal point of view
- heritability — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hexasyllable — a word or line of verse of six syllables.
- hideaway bed — a sofa, loveseat, etc., that can be converted into a bed, usually by folding out a concealed mattress and springs.
- high-ability — (of a student) having a higher than average ability
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.
- honorability — (American spelling) Alternative form of honourability.
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hybrid basis — A hybrid basis is a system of accounting that combines some of the features of cost basis with some of the features of accrual basis.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.