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11-letter words containing b, a, i, n, g

  • bag of wind — windbag.
  • baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
  • baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
  • baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
  • baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
  • balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
  • ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
  • ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
  • balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
  • bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
  • bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
  • banistering — Present participle of banister.
  • banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
  • banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
  • bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
  • banteringly — in a bantering fashion
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
  • bargain bin — a container in a shop from which customers can buy goods that may be old or imperfect at greatly reduced prices
  • bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
  • bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
  • barricading — Present participle of barricade.
  • baserunning — the act of running around bases
  • basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
  • basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • bcg vaccine — a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis.
  • be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
  • beam engine — an early type of steam engine, in which a pivoted beam is vibrated by a vertical steam cylinder at one end, so that it transmits motion to the workload, such as a pump, at the other end
  • beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
  • bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • bioregional — relating to a bioregion
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
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