10-letter words containing g, e, t, i
- arbitrages — Plural form of arbitrage.
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- argenteuil — a suburb of Paris, France, with a convent (656) that became famous when Héloïse was abbess (12th century). Pop: 103 250 (2008)
- argyrodite — a rare mineral, Ag8GeS6, that contains silver, germanium, and sulphur
- arpeggiate — to play an arpeggio
- arrogative — Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance.
- asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
- assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
- astringent — An astringent is a liquid that you put on your skin to make it less oily or to make cuts stop bleeding.
- atomic age — the period characterized by the use of atomic energy: regarded as beginning with the creation of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942
- atomweight — (martial arts, combat sports) the weightclass below strawweight of less than 105lbs.
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- attendings — physicians who attend to patients in a hospital
- aubergiste — an innkeeper or hotelier
- augmenting — to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
- 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
- bedighting — Present participle of bedight.
- bedlington — Also called Bedlingtonshire [bed-ling-tuh n-sheer, -sher] /ˈbɛd lɪŋ tənˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). an urban area in E Northumberland, in N England.
- bedsitting — as in bedsitting room
- bedwetting — Bedwetting means urinating in bed, usually by small children.
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- benefiting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- bennington — a town in SW Vermont: the site of a British defeat (1777) in the War of American Independence. Pop: 15 637 (2003 est)
- bewitching — enchanting; charming; fascinating.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big hitter — A big hitter is a sportsperson such as a golfer or tennis player who hits the ball with a lot of force.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- 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