12-letter words containing y, a, r, b
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- 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.
- 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
- heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- hydrocarbons — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incurability — The quality or state of being incurable—not being able to be cured.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- inerrability — Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility.
- inextricably — from which one cannot extricate oneself: an inextricable maze.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interlibrary — a place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of rooms, or building where books may be read or borrowed.
- interminably — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- irascibility — easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
- irredeemably — not redeemable; incapable of being bought back or paid off.