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11-letter words containing g, a, n, t

  • beardtongue — a plant of the genus Penstemon
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
  • blacktongue — canine pellagra.
  • blanket bog — a very acid peat bog, low in nutrients, extending widely over a flat terrain, found in cold wet climates
  • block grant — (in Britain) an annual grant made by the government to a local authority to help to pay for the public services it provides, such as health, education, and housing
  • brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
  • bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
  • brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • burnt sugar — caramel
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
  • calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
  • calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
  • captivating — Someone or something that is captivating fascinates or attracts you.
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
  • cargo pants — Cargo pants are large, loose pants with lots of pockets.
  • cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
  • castigating — Present participle of castigate.
  • castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • cat-and-dog — continuously or unceasingly vicious and destructive: cat-and-dog competition.
  • catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
  • cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
  • catechising — Present participle of catechise.
  • catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
  • cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
  • celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
  • centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre
  • cerebrating — Present participle of cerebrate.
  • cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
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