10-letter words containing a, g, s, i
- astringent — An astringent is a liquid that you put on your skin to make it less oily or to make cuts stop bleeding.
- astringing — Present participle of astringe.
- atmologist — a person who studies or is expert in atmology or the study of aqueous vapour
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- aubergines — Plural form of aubergine.
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- averagings — average values
- avigator's — aerial navigation.
- awakenings — Plural form of awakening.
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- backlights — Plural form of backlight.
- backsights — Plural form of backsight.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- bagassosis — an allergic response to the dust of bagasse, causing breathlessness and fever
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
- basic wage — a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc
- batologist — someone who practises batology
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- 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)
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- bill gates — (person) William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- 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
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brass ring — great success or a highly valued prize; also, an opportunity for this
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- cacogenics — dysgenics.
- cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- caliginous — dark; dim