12-letter words containing y, e, b
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
- gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- gollywobbler — a very large quadrilateral staysail set between the foremast and mainmast of a schooner.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- great gatsby — a novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- grey warbler — a small bush bird that hatches the eggs of the shining cuckoo
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
- hobbledehoys — Plural form of hobbledehoy.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- hydrobromate — (chemistry) hydrobromide.
- hydrobromide — a salt formed by the direct union of hydrobromic acid and an organic base, especially an alkaloid, usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hydrolyzable — Able to be hydrolyzed.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperbolize.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- illegibility — not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poor handwriting, faded print, etc.: This letter is completely illegible.
- 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.
- inaccessibly — In an inaccessible manner.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
- indelibility — making marks that cannot be erased, removed, or the like: indelible ink.
- ineffability — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffaceably — not effaceable or eradicable; indelible: an ineffaceable impression.