0%

12-letter words containing b, a, g

  • bathing suit — A bathing suit is a piece of clothing which people wear when they go swimming.
  • bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
  • bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • baton charge — A baton charge is an attacking forward movement made by a large group of policemen carrying batons.
  • batting cage — a screen with three sides and a top, in which batters practice: it keeps missed and fouled pitches within its enclosure
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • battle wagon — a battleship.
  • battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.
  • battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
  • battological — tending to repeat words unnecessarily
  • beachcombing — The action of a beachcomber.
  • beacon light — a light signal for shipping
  • bead molding — bead (def 12).
  • bear-baiting — (formerly) an entertainment in which dogs attacked and enraged a chained bear
  • beardtongues — Plural form of beardtongue.
  • bearing down — to hold up; support: to bear the weight of the roof.
  • bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
  • bearing rail — a transverse rail carrying a drawer or drawers.
  • bearing rein — a rein from the bit to the saddle, designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position
  • bearing wall — any of the walls supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
  • bearskin rug — the pelt of a bear, used as a rug
  • beaumontague — a cement-like substance used to fill in and hide cracks and holes in woodwork and metalwork
  • bedraggledly — In a bedraggled manner.
  • beef sausage — a sausage made of beef rather than pork
  • beggar-ticks — any of various plants, such as the bur marigold and tick trefoil, having fruits or seeds that cling to clothing, fur, etc
  • belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
  • beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
  • belgian hare — a large red breed of domestic rabbit
  • bell gardens — a town in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • bella figura — a good impression; fine appearance
  • belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
  • belt highway — beltway (def 1).
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • bengal light — a firework or flare that burns with a steady bright blue light, formerly used as a signal
  • bengal tiger — a large tiger found in S. Asia
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • bermuda high — a subtropical high centered near Bermuda.
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • bhakti-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • bible banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bible-banger — Bible-thumper.
  • bibliography — A bibliography is a list of books on a particular subject.
  • biflagellate — having two flagella
  • bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
  • bilinguality — the ability to speak two languages fluently.
  • billingsgate — the largest fish market in London, on the N bank of the River Thames; moved to new site at Canary Wharf in 1982 and the former building converted into offices
  • binary digit — either of the two digits 0 or 1, used in binary notation
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?