8-letter words containing t, a, g
- bantling — a young child; brat
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batlings — Plural form of batling.
- batology — the study of members of the species Rubus
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- beathing — Present participle of beath.
- beatings — Plural form of beating.
- belt bag — a bag that can be attached to a belt
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- berthage — a place for mooring boats
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- big beat — an eclectic type of dance music in which heavy beats and samples are layered over the songs or instrumental tracks of other performers or bands
- big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
- 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.
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- braggart — a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- bretagne — Brittany2
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- caatinga — a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest
- cabotage — coastal navigation or shipping, esp within the borders of one country
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantigny — a village in N France, S of Amiens: first major battle of U.S. forces in World War I, May 1918.
- cantling — a layer of burnt brick lying directly over a clamp of bricks being fired.
- carthage — an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad
- castagno — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), (Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla) c1423–57, Florentine painter.
- castings — Plural form of casting.
- castling — the act of moving the king two squares laterally on the first rank and placing the nearest rook on the square passed over by the king, either towards the king's side or the queen's side
- catagory — Misspelling of category.
- catalogs — Plural form of catalog.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- catering — Catering is the activity of providing food and drink for a large number of people, for example at weddings and parties.