10-letter words containing g, e, n
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- beneficing — a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
- benefiting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benignancy — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- bennington — a town in SW Vermont: the site of a British defeat (1777) in the War of American Independence. Pop: 15 637 (2003 est)
- bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
- bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
- 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)
- beseeching — A beseeching expression, gesture, or tone of voice suggests that the person who has or makes it very much wants someone to do something.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bewitching — enchanting; charming; fascinating.
- bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- 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.
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blancmange — Blancmange is a cold dessert that is made from milk, sugar, cornflour or corn starch, and flavouring, and looks rather like jelly.
- 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.
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- 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.
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
- boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- brig. gen. — Brig. Gen. is a written abbreviation for brigadier general.
- brigandage — plundering by brigands
- brigandine — a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
- brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast