10-letter words containing a, b, i, n, g
- bargaining — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- bering sea — a part of the N Pacific Ocean, between NE Siberia and Alaska. Area: about 2 275 000 sq km (878 000 sq miles)
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big-endian — 1. (data, architecture) A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2. (networking, standard) A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biratnagar — a city in SE Nepal.
- birmingham — an industrial city in central England, in Birmingham unitary authority, in the West Midlands: the second largest city in Great Britain; two cathedrals; three universities (1900, 1966, 1992). Pop: 970 892 (2001)
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- 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.
- 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.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- 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