10-letter words containing e, l, g, i, a
- apterygial — (of eels, certain insects, etc) lacking such paired limbs as wings or fins
- areligious — unconcerned with or indifferent to religious matters.
- argenteuil — a suburb of Paris, France, with a convent (656) that became famous when Héloïse was abbess (12th century). Pop: 103 250 (2008)
- aspergilla — Plural form of aspergillum.
- assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
- assignable — capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.
- azalignane — (organic compound) Any derivative of a lignane in which one or more of the benzene rings has been replaced with pyridine.
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- 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.
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- 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.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- cancelling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- cartilages — Plural form of cartilage.
- catalogize — to make a list of or catalogue
- categorial — of or relating to a category
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- channeling — esp. in some New Age beliefs, the process by which a person becomes a conduit for a deceased person, as someone from an ancient culture, who imparts information about a previous life
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- cleggmania — the brief surge in popularity for the leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, after a series of live televised debates preceding the 2010 British general election
- clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible
- collegians — Plural form of collegian.
- collegiate — Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students.
- colligated — Simple past tense and past participle of colligate.
- concealing — Present participle of conceal.
- congealing — Present participle of congeal.