10-letter words containing u, g
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- beau geste — a noble or gracious gesture or act, esp one that is meaningless
- beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
- beclouding — Present participle of becloud.
- beefburger — A beefburger is the same as a hamburger.
- beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
- beetlebung — sour gum.
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- begrudgery — resentment of any person who has achieved success or wealth
- begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- big laurel — the rhododendron.
- big league — a major sports league
- big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
- bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
- bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
- blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
- bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
- bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
- bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
- blue agave — a Mexican plant, Agave tequilana variant weber, with blue leaves, used in tequila.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue goose — a variety of the snow goose that has a bluish-grey body and white head and neck
- blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
- blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
- blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore