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10-letter words containing a, e, g, n

  • austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
  • authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
  • autogenous — originating within the body
  • autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
  • avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
  • avengeance — (obsolete) vengeance.
  • avengement — (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
  • avengeress — a female avenger
  • averagings — average values
  • avgolemono — a Greek soup made with eggs, lemon juice, and rice
  • awakenings — Plural form of awakening.
  • azalignane — (organic compound) Any derivative of a lignane in which one or more of the benzene rings has been replaced with pyridine.
  • back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
  • baggageman — (US) a railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
  • bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
  • balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
  • balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
  • bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
  • banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
  • bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
  • barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
  • bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
  • bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
  • baronetage — the order of baronets; baronets collectively
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
  • battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
  • batterings — Plural form of battering.
  • baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
  • bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
  • bean goose — a grey goose, Anser fabalis
  • 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.
  • beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
  • bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
  • bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
  • benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
  • 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)
  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • 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.
  • bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
  • blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
  • blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
  • 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.
  • blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
  • 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.
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