10-letter words containing h, g
- birthnight — the night on which a person was born
- birthright — Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being.
- black shag — a large dark-coloured shag, Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandis, of Australasian waters
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
- blithering — talking foolishly; jabbering
- boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
- bog orchid — an orchid, Hammarbya (or Malaxis) paludosa, growing in sphagnum bogs in the N hemisphere. It has greenish-yellow flowers and its leaves bear a fringe of tiny bulbils
- bogey hole — a natural pool used for swimming
- bogey-hole — a swimming hole.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brightener — a person or thing that brightens.
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- bring home — introduce to parents
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- 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
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
- cacography — bad handwriting
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- caml light — A small portable implementation of a version of CAML by Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> and Damien Doligez of INRIA. Caml Light uses a bytecode interpreter written in C. It adds a Modula-2-like module system, separate compilation, lazy streams for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with C. Version 0.6 runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. It includes an interpreter, compiler, Emacs mode, libraries, scanner generator, parser generator, run-time support and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on Unix, Macintosh and Windows. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on Objective Caml. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- cargo ship — a ship carrying cargo
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- carragheen — Irish moss.
- cartograph — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- cashiering — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
- catfishing — Present participle of catfish.
- cathecting — Present participle of cathect.
- cephalalgy — Dated form of cephalalgia.
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping