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10-letter words containing e, g

  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • beetlebung — sour gum.
  • befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
  • beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
  • beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
  • beginnings — the early stages; the first signs
  • begrudgery — resentment of any person who has achieved success or wealth
  • begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
  • 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.
  • bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
  • bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
  • belly girt — girth (def 2).
  • belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
  • ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
  • beneficing — a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
  • benefiting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bennington — a town in SW Vermont: the site of a British defeat (1777) in the War of American Independence. Pop: 15 637 (2003 est)
  • 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
  • beth-phage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
  • bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
  • bewitching — enchanting; charming; fascinating.
  • bibliopegy — the art of binding books
  • bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
  • big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
  • big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
  • big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
  • big hitter — A big hitter is a sportsperson such as a golfer or tennis player who hits the ball with a lot of force.
  • big laurel — the rhododendron.
  • big league — a major sports league
  • 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 ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
  • 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.
  • big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
  • big-headed — If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
  • big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
  • bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
  • bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
  • bilge keel — one of two keel-like projections along the bilges of some vessels to improve sideways stability
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