10-letter words containing g, o, n
- 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
- bandwaggon — Alt form bandwagon.
- bandwagons — Plural form of bandwagon.
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- baronetage — the order of baronets; baronets collectively
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- 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.
- bayoneting — (US) present participle of bayonet.
- bean goose — a grey goose, Anser fabalis
- beatboxing — a form of hip-hop music in which the voice is used to simulate percussion instruments
- 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.
- 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.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- 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)
- 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
- bibliogony — the art of producing and publishing books.
- big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biogenesis — the principle that a living organism must originate from a parent organism similar to itself
- biogenetic — genetic engineering.
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
- bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blowing up — a reprimand
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- bnr prolog — A constraint logic language.
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- bollocking — a severe telling-off; dressing-down
- bolstering — a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bon voyage — You say 'bon voyage' to someone who is going on a journey, as a way of saying goodbye and wishing them good luck.
- bongo drum — small hand drum
- book lungs — primitive lungs of many arachnids, consisting of pagelike layers of tissue over which air circulates for respiration