11-letter words containing i, g, n
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- 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
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- beer engine — a pump used to draw beer from a cask
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
- bell ringer — A bell ringer is someone who rings church bells or hand bells, especially as a hobby.
- belligerent — A belligerent person is hostile and aggressive.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- 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.
- bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
- besiegement — the state of being besieged
- besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
- betting man — a person who is in the habit of placing bets
- betting tax — a tax on gambling
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- bidding war — a situation in which multiple offerers bid to own a single property
- big science — scientific research that requires a large investment of capital
- big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bindingness — the quality of being binding
- bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
- binge-watch — to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession
- bingo wings — areas of loose or flabby skin on the upper arm, esp in women, which hang down when the arm is extended
- biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
- bioengineer — Also called biomedical engineering. the application of engineering principles and techniques to problems in medicine and biology, as the design and production of artificial limbs and organs.
- biogenetics — the branch of biology concerned with altering the genomes of living organisms
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
- bioregional — relating to a bioregion
- birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
- 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
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blightingly — in a blighting manner
- blind tiger — speak-easy
- bling bling — expensive and flashy jewelry, clothing, or other possessions.
- bling-bling — flashy; ostentatious; glitzy
- blizzarding — Meteorology. a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area.
- blogjacking — the use of another person’s blog without his or her consent, esp for malicious or satirical purposes