10-letter words containing b, a, g, n
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballooning — Ballooning is the sport or activity of flying a hot-air balloon.
- balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.
- bandwaggon — Alt form bandwagon.
- bandwagons — Plural form of bandwagon.
- 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)
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargaining — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- barn grass — a weedy, coarse grass, Echinochloa crus-galli, having a spikelike cluster of flowers.
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- baronetage — the order of baronets; baronets collectively
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- 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
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- 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.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people