10-letter words containing b, g, s
- bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
- beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- beginnings — the early stages; the first signs
- bell glass — a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- 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)
- beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- big spring — a city in W Texas.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- 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).
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- birth sign — the sign of the zodiac through which the sun is passing when a person is born
- bit string — (programming, data) An ordered sequence of bits. This is very similar to a bit pattern except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
- black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- 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
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.