11-letter words containing g
- badger game — the blackmailing of a man by maneuvering him into a compromising situation with a woman
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bag of wind — windbag.
- baggage car — A baggage car is a railway carriage, often without windows, which is used to carry luggage, goods, or mail.
- baggy green — the Australian Test cricket cap
- bagna cauda — a dip made from garlic, anchovies, butter, and olive oil, usually served hot over a spirit burner, with raw vegetables
- bahia grass — a grass, Paspalum notatum, of tropical America, grown in the southern United States for lawns and pasturage.
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- baking dish — a usually ceramic dish in which items can be baked
- baking soda — Baking soda is the same as bicarbonate of soda.
- baking tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- balbriggans — underwear made from balbriggan fabric, for example long men's underpants
- ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- banana plug — a small single-conductor electrical plug having a curved metal spring along its shank forming a clip to hold it in its socket
- banana slug — a large, bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk, Ariolimax columbianus, of the northwestern forests of North America: the second largest slug in the world.
- bandylegged — having bandy legs; bowlegged
- bangladeshi — Bangladeshi means belonging to or relating to Bangladesh, or to its people or culture.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- banking 2.0 — a name given to several radical departures from the traditional model of banking, esp the use of communications technology to facilitate lending between individuals
- banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
- barbary fig — prickly pear.
- barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
- bargain bin — a container in a shop from which customers can buy goods that may be old or imperfect at greatly reduced prices
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- bargainable — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- bargeboards — Plural form of bargeboard.
- bargemaster — the owner of a barge
- barking mad — If you say that someone is barking mad, you mean that they are insane or are acting very strangely.
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- basal ridge — a U -shaped ridge at the base of the posterior surface of the crown of a tooth.
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- basin range — a mountain range of the type found in the Great Basin region of the western U.S., typically long and narrow and characterized by faulted, tilted blocks of strata.
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- bass guitar — a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
- bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.