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8-letter words containing a, g, i

  • badoglio — Pietro (ˈpjetro). 1871–1956, Italian marshal; premier (1943–44) following Mussolini's downfall: arranged an armistice with the Allies (1943)
  • baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
  • bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
  • bagpipes — Bagpipes are a musical instrument that is traditionally played in Scotland. You play the bagpipes by blowing air through a pipe into a bag, and then squeezing the bag to force the air out through other pipes.
  • bailings — Plural form of bailing.
  • balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
  • bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
  • bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
  • bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
  • bantling — a young child; brat
  • banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
  • bar girl — an attractive girl employed by the management of a bar to befriend male customers and encourage them to buy drinks
  • bar-girl — a barmaid.
  • bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
  • baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
  • bargains — Plural form of bargain.
  • barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
  • barkings — Plural form of barking.
  • barrings — Plural form of barring.
  • bashings — Plural form of bashing.
  • bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
  • batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
  • batlings — Plural form of batling.
  • batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
  • battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
  • baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
  • beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
  • beadings — Plural form of beading.
  • beagling — hunting with beagle hounds.
  • bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
  • bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
  • beathing — Present participle of beath.
  • beatings — Plural form of beating.
  • being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
  • benghazi — a port in N Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra: centre of Italian colonization (1911–42); scene of much fighting in World War II. Pop: 1 080 500 (2002 est)
  • berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
  • bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
  • beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
  • berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
  • bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
  • big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
  • big bang — any sudden forceful beginning or radical change
  • big beat — an eclectic type of dance music in which heavy beats and samples are layered over the songs or instrumental tracks of other performers or bands
  • big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
  • big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
  • big easy — the New Orleans
  • big game — Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.
  • big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
  • big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
  • big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
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