11-letter words containing i, g, n, a, t
- backlisting — Present participle of backlist.
- backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- 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 tray — A baking tray is the same as a baking sheet.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- banquetings — Plural form of banqueting.
- banteringly — in a bantering fashion
- basingstoke — a town in S England, in N Hampshire. Pop: 90 171 (2001)
- 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.
- batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- bratticings — a series of temporary wooden housings erected on top of a wall, esp a castle wall
- brattishing — decorative work along the coping or on the cornice of a building
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
- calculating — If you describe someone as calculating, you disapprove of the fact that they deliberately plan to get what they want, often by hurting or harming other people.
- calibrating — Mark (a gauge or instrument) with a standard scale of readings.
- candlelight — Candlelight is the light that a candle produces.
- captivating — Someone or something that is captivating fascinates or attracts you.
- carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
- care-taking — a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
- cartelizing — Present participle of cartelize.
- castigating — Present participle of castigate.
- castigation — to criticize or reprimand severely.
- castiglione — Count Baldassare (baldasˈsaːre). 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and writer, noted particularly for his dialogue on ideal courtly life, Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Courtier) (1528)
- casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
- catagenesis — the retrogressive evolution of a species. Compare anagenesis (def 1).
- cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
- catechising — Present participle of catechise.
- catechizing — Present participle of catechize.
- cauterizing — Present participle of cauterize.
- celebrating — Present participle of celebrate.
- centigramme — Alternative spelling of centigram.
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centrifugal — acting, moving, or tending to move away from a centre