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10-letter words containing g, l

  • bald eagle — A bald eagle is a large eagle with a white head that lives in North America. It is the national bird of the United States of America.
  • balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
  • ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
  • ballooning — Ballooning is the sport or activity of flying a hot-air balloon.
  • balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
  • bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
  • barelegged — having uncovered legs
  • bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • basic slag — a furnace slag produced in steel-making, containing large amounts of calcium phosphate: used as a fertilizer
  • batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
  • batologist — someone who practises batology
  • beaglehole — John. 1901–71, New Zealand historian and author. His works include Exploration of the Pacific (1934) and The Journals of James Cook (1955)
  • beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
  • 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.
  • bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • beetlebung — sour gum.
  • befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
  • bell glass — a bell-shaped glass jar or cover for protecting delicate instruments, bric-a-brac, or the like, or for containing gases or a vacuum in chemical experiments.
  • bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
  • bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
  • belly girt — girth (def 2).
  • belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
  • bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
  • bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
  • bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
  • bibliology — the study of Biblical literature
  • bibliopegy — the art of binding books
  • big laurel — the rhododendron.
  • big league — a major sports league
  • big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
  • 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.
  • bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
  • 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.
  • billy goat — A billy goat is a male goat.
  • bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
  • bioecology — the science that deals with the interrelations of communities of animals and plants with their environment
  • biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
  • biological — Biological is used to describe processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.
  • bitterling — a small brightly coloured European freshwater cyprinid fish, Rhodeus sericeus: a popular aquarium fish
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