10-letter words containing a, d, g
- bargeboard — a board, often decorated with carved ornaments, placed along the gable end of a roof
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- 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.
- big-headed — If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- black gold — petroleum
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- board game — A board game is a game such as chess or backgammon, which people play by moving small objects around on a board.
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- 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.
- bubs grade — a baby
- 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
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- canaan dog — a strongly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect ears, a dense coat, and a bushy tail carried curled over its back
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- cardialgia — pain in or near the heart
- cardiogram — electrocardiogram
- cardiology — Cardiology is the study of the heart and its diseases.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
- castigated — Simple past tense and past participle of castigate.
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- cattle dog — a catalogue