8-letter words containing a, g, i
- big mama — a man's sweetheart, girlfriend, or wife.
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big road — a main road or highway.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- biograph — a biographical summary
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- blabbing — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blagging — informal conversation in a public place, often deceitful.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- braiding — braids collectively
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- braining — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- bugzilla — (programming) The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- caatinga — a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest
- cabining — Present participle of cabin.
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cagelike — resembling a cage