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11-letter words containing i, g, n, 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.
  • be going to — If you say that something is going to happen, you mean that it will happen in the future, usually quite soon.
  • bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • bed-wetting — the act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
  • bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
  • bedding out — the process of planting out young flowering plants in beds
  • befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
  • beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
  • belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
  • benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • benightment — the state of being in physical, moral, or intellectual darkness
  • 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.
  • bering time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • besiegement — the state of being besieged
  • betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
  • betting tax — a tax on gambling
  • big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
  • binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
  • biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
  • bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
  • 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.
  • bit-robbing — in-band signalling
  • blightingly — in a blighting manner
  • blind tiger — speak-easy
  • bloomington — a city in central Indiana: seat of the University of Indiana (1820). Pop: 70 642 (2003 est)
  • bogtrotting — the act of roaming over boggy areas, or living in boggy areas
  • bootlegging — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  • bootlicking — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
  • boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • box-ticking — the process of satisfying bureaucratic administrative requirements rather than assessing the actual merit of something
  • 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
  • bright-line — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
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