8-letter words containing i, g, n
- bedewing — Present participle of bedew.
- beeswing — a light filmy crust of tartar that forms in port and some other wines after long keeping in the bottle
- beetling — a heavy hammering or ramming instrument, usually of wood, used to drive wedges, force down paving stones, compress loose earth, etc.
- befinger — to finger all over
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- being as — You can use being as to introduce a reason for what you are saying.
- beknight — to esteem
- belching — to eject gas spasmodically and noisily from the stomach through the mouth; eruct.
- belitong — Billiton.
- belitung — island of Indonesia, in the Java Sea, between Borneo & Sumatra: 1,866 sq mi (4,833 sq km)
- bemingle — to mingle
- bemusing — to bewilder or confuse.
- benching — a long seat for several persons: a bench in the park.
- benghazi — a port in N Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra: centre of Italian colonization (1911–42); scene of much fighting in World War II. Pop: 1 080 500 (2002 est)
- benignly — having a kindly disposition; gracious: a benign king.
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- besognio — a young soldier
- beveling — the inclination that one line or surface makes with another when not at right angles.
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- bewinged — having wings
- bi-swing — (of a garment) made with a deep pleat starting at the back waistline or belt and extending up to the shoulder on each side, to avoid constriction when the wearer's arms are extended.
- biddings — command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
- big band — A big band is a large group of musicians who play jazz or dance music. Big bands were especially popular from the 1930s to the 1950s.
- big bang — any sudden forceful beginning or radical change
- big guns — an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
- big tent — a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
- big-name — having a widespread public reputation as a leader in a specified field; famous: a big-name doctor; a big-name actress.
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- big-tent — a political party's or coalition's policy or doctrine of allowing and encouraging a wide range of beliefs, opinions, and views among its members.
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bighting — the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- billings — Josh (dʒɑʃ ) ; jäsh) (pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-85; U.S. humorist
- bing xin — (Xie Wanying) 1900–1999, Chinese writer.
- bingeing — a period or bout, usually brief, of excessive indulgence, as in eating, drinking alcoholic beverages, etc.; spree.
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- birdwing — a type of large, tropical butterfly
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- bit bang — Transmission of data on a serial line accomplished by rapidly changing a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times. The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte. Input is more interesting. And full-duplex (doing input and output at the same time) is one way to separate the real hackers from the wannabees. Bit bang was used on certain early models of Prime computers, presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Zilog Z80 micros with a Zilog PIO but no SIO. In an interesting instance of the cycle of reincarnation, this technique is now (1991) coming back into use on some RISC architectures because it consumes such an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense not to have a UART.