10-letter words containing g, e, t, b
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- 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).
- 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
- 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
- blitzkrieg — A blitzkrieg is a fast and intense military attack that takes the enemy by surprise and is intended to achieve a very quick victory.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- 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.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- bog myrtle — sweet gale.
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- bogtrotter — a highly offensive term for an Irish person
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bridgetree — a beam supporting the shaft on which an upper millstone rotates.
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brigantine — a two-masted sailing ship, rigged square on the foremast and fore-and-aft with square topsails on the mainmast
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- burst page — banner
- butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
- butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
- carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- conglobate — to form into a globe or ball
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- digestable — (obsolete, or, nonstandard) alt form digestible.
- digestible — capable of being digested; readily digested.
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in