8-letter words containing e, g
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- bitewing — a dental X-ray film
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blebbing — the formation of a bleb
- bleeding — Bleeding is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they feel strongly about something or dislike something.
- bleeping — (used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here!
- blending — to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- bletting — the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue gas — water gas.
- blue gum — a tall fast-growing widely cultivated Australian myrtaceous tree, Eucalyptus globulus, having aromatic leaves containing a medicinal oil, bark that peels off in shreds, and hard timber. The juvenile leaves are bluish in colour
- blue-leg — blewit.
- bluegill — a common North American freshwater sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus: an important food and game fish
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- bluewing — a variety of teal, Anas discors, native to the Americas
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- botteghe — the studio of a master artist, in which lesser artists, apprentices, or students learn by participating in the work.
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- boulogne — a port in N France, on the English Channel. Pop: 45 036 (2006)
- bourgeon — burgeon
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- braggers — a person who brags.
- brakeage — the braking power of a vehicle, esp a train
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breakage — Breakage is the act of breaking something.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.
- breezing — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
- bren gun — an air-cooled gas-operated light machine gun taking .303 calibre ammunition: used by British and Commonwealth forces in World War II