10-letter words containing b, l, a, g
- 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).
- billbergia — any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.
- billy goat — A billy goat is a male goat.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- biological — Biological is used to describe processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black flag — a flag that is all or mostly black, esp. such a flag flown by a pirate ship
- black gang — the crew working in a stokehold of a ship.
- black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- black gold — petroleum
- black gram — a leguminous plant, Phaseolus mungo, whose seeds are used as food in India
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- 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
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- braggartly — in a braggart or boastful manner
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bump along — advance unevenly
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- calico bug — harlequin bug.