8-letter words containing g, s
- besought — beseech
- bi-swing — (of a garment) made with a deep pleat starting at the back waistline or belt and extending up to the shoulder on each side, to avoid constriction when the wearer's arms are extended.
- biddings — command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
- big easy — the New Orleans
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
- big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
- big guns — an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigstick — of, or relating to, irresistible military strength
- billings — Josh (dʒɑʃ ) ; jäsh) (pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-85; U.S. humorist
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blessing — A blessing is something good that you are grateful for.
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blue gas — water gas.
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bow legs — a condition in which the legs curve outwards like a bow between the ankle and the thigh
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- braggers — a person who brags.
- brassage — a fee charged for coining money
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brisking — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- bughouse — a mental hospital or asylum
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bush-hog — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.