10-letter words containing e, g, u
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- 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 laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- 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 goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- bubble gum — Bubble gum is a sweet substance similar to chewing gum. You can blow it out of your mouth so it makes the shape of a bubble.
- bubble-gum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- bubs grade — a baby
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bulldogged — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing