10-letter words containing g, i, b, e
- belly girt — girth (def 2).
- 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)
- 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.
- bewitching — enchanting; charming; fascinating.
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
- big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
- big cheese — Someone who has a very important job or position can be referred to as a big cheese.
- big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
- 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 laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
- big sister — an elder sister.
- big ticket — costing a great deal; expensive: fur coats and other big-ticket items.
- 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.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- big-headed — If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bilge keel — one of two keel-like projections along the bilges of some vessels to improve sideways stability
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- bilge well — bilge (def 1c).
- bilge-well — Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
- 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).
- billbergia — any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.
- biodegrade — to decompose (something)
- bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- birddogged — characterized by being pursued with determination
- 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.
- 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.