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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.
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