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10-letter words containing g, s, a

  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • 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.
  • bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • 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)
  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • big casino — (in the game of casino) the ten of diamonds.
  • big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
  • 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).
  • bird grass — rough bluegrass
  • black sage — a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
  • black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
  • blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • blazonings — heraldic adornments
  • blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
  • blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
  • 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
  • boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
  • boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
  • bowser bag — doggy bag.
  • branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
  • brass ring — great success or a highly valued prize; also, an opportunity for this
  • brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
  • brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
  • bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
  • brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
  • bubs grade — a baby
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • burst page — banner
  • bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
  • bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
  • bust a gut — to make an intense effort
  • butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
  • cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
  • cacogenics — dysgenics.
  • cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • caliginous — dark; dim
  • canalising — Present participle of canalise.
  • cane grass — any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps
  • cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
  • canonising — Present participle of canonise.
  • canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • canvassing — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
  • caregivers — Plural form of caregiver.
  • cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
  • caringness — The quality of being caring.
  • carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
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