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11-letter words containing i, g, b

  • backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
  • backloading — to defer to a later date, as wages, benefits, or costs: The union agreed to back-load pay raises.
  • backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
  • backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
  • backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
  • backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
  • backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
  • backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
  • backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bag of wind — windbag.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • batological — relating to the study of brambles
  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
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