10-letter words containing g, i, l, n
- becomingly — that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
- bedazzling — to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings: Audiences were bedazzled by her charm.
- bedeviling — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
- 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.
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- 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.
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- 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.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- 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.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blindingly — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blistering — Blistering heat is very great heat.
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- 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.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brinelling — a localized surface corrosion; a cause of damage to bearings
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- bumblingly — in a bumbling manner
- bunglingly — in a bungling manner
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
- caliginous — dark; dim