10-letter words containing a, b, g
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
- bookmaking — Bookmaking is the activity of taking people's money when they bet and paying them money if they win.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- braggartly — in a braggart or boastful manner
- 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
- 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.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- 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
- bring back — Something that brings back a memory makes you think about it.
- brogrammer — a male computer programmer who is characterized as a bro: Brogrammers challenge the geek/nerd stereotype.
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- bronze age — The Bronze Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from bronze about 4,000–6,000 years ago.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- bubs grade — a baby
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent