10-letter words containing g, i, u
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autodigest — To carry out autodigestion.
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- beating-up — a physical assault
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
- 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.
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- 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
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.