10-letter words containing g, a, b, i
- bagassosis — an allergic response to the dust of bagasse, causing breathlessness and fever
- bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- balbriggan — a knitted unbleached cotton fabric
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballooning — Ballooning is the sport or activity of flying a hot-air balloon.
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargaining — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
- basic wage — a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- batologist — someone who practises batology
- batterings — Plural form of battering.
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- 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
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- 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)
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- 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-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.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- 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.