11-letter words containing a, b, g
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- beer garden — a garden attached to a pub, where people can sit and drink beer
- beleaguered — experiencing difficulties, opposition or criticism
- belle glade — a city in SE Florida.
- belligerati — intellectuals, such as writers, who advocate war or imperialism
- belly laugh — A belly laugh is a very loud, deep laugh.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- bengal rose — China rose (def 1).
- bengal-rose — Also called Bengal rose. a rose, Rosa chinensis, of China, having slightly fragrant crimson, pink, or white flowers.
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bersagliere — a member of a rifle regiment in the Italian Army
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- big-hearted — If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- big-leaguer — Sports. a player in a major league.
- bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
- bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
- bilge board — a board lowered from the bilge of a sailing vessel to serve as a keel.
- bilge water — Nautical. bilge (def 1d).
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black angus — Aberdeen Angus
- black goods — electronic goods which are housed in black or dark casings, such as televisions, CD players, etc
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black magic — magic used for evil purposes by invoking the power of the devil
- blacktongue — canine pellagra.
- blady grass — a coarse leafy Australasian grass, Imperata cylindrica
- blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
- blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
- blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes
- blood sugar — the glucose concentration in the blood: the normal fasting value is between 3.9 and 5.6 mmol/l
- bluejacking — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to gain access to another, esp in order to send anonymous text messages
- boil-in-bag — of or being a prepared, often frozen, food sealed and sold in a plastic bag that is immersed in boiling water until the contents are cooked or heated for serving.
- bokhara rug — a Turkoman rug having a tan or red background and decorated with varied octagon patterns.
- bomb damage — damage to buildings, etc caused by the explosion of a bomb
- boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.