10-letter words containing b, i, g
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- brain gain — the immigration into a country of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, attracted by better pay, equipment, or conditions
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brass ring — great success or a highly valued prize; also, an opportunity for this
- bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bridgetree — a beam supporting the shaft on which an upper millstone rotates.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brig. gen. — Brig. Gen. is a written abbreviation for brigadier general.
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- brinelling — a localized surface corrosion; a cause of damage to bearings
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- bring down — When people or events bring down a government or ruler, they cause the government or ruler to lose power.
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bring over — to cause (a person) to change allegiances
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)