9-letter words containing g
- besetting — tempting, harassing, or assailing (esp in the phrase besetting sin)
- besiegers — to lay siege to.
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- bethphage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- bevelling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- biestings — beestings
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- big money — Big money is an amount of money that seems very large to you, especially money which you get easily.
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- big muddy — a nickname of the Missouri River.
- big night — an important and usually anticipated evening
- big noise — Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big stick — force or the threat of using force
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- big wheel — A big wheel is a very large upright wheel with carriages around the edge of it which people can ride in. Big wheels are often found at theme parks or fun fairs.
- big-boned — having bones that are unusually massive
- big-timer — Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- bigotedly — in a bigoted manner
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bilingual — Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- billeting — the activity of assigning soldiers or others to accommodation that is not normally used by them
- billowing — a great wave or surge of the sea.
- bindingly — in a binding manner
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioenergy — the renewable energy derived from biological sources