8-letter words containing g, a, b
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthage — a place for mooring boats
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big bang — any sudden forceful beginning or radical change
- big beat — an eclectic type of dance music in which heavy beats and samples are layered over the songs or instrumental tracks of other performers or bands
- big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- big game — Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.
- big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
- big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- big mama — a man's sweetheart, girlfriend, or wife.
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big road — a main road or highway.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- biograph — a biographical summary
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.
- blabbing — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- 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
- blagging — informal conversation in a public place, often deceitful.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue gas — water gas.
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital