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11-letter words containing y, i, g

  • batting eye — the batter's visual appraisal of balls pitched toward home plate.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay village — a city in N central Ohio.
  • bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
  • beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
  • befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
  • believingly — with belief; in a believing manner
  • bellyaching — constant complaining
  • benignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • beseemingly — in a manner that is beseeming
  • besiegingly — in an urgent or important manner
  • big society — the devolution of political power and social responsibility to local communities as opposed to centralized political power and state control
  • bigeye scad — a carangid fish, Selar crumenophthalmus, of tropical seas and Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S., having prominent eyes and commonly used as bait.
  • bikram yoga — a form of yoga in which traditional exercises are performed at high temperature and humidity
  • bing cherry — a dark-red variety of sweet cherry
  • biocenology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of biological communities and the interactions among their members.
  • blightingly — in a blighting manner
  • bloodguilty — guilty of murder or bloodshed.
  • bricklaying — the technique or practice of laying bricks
  • bright-eyed — eager; fresh and enthusiastic
  • bulk buying — the purchase at one time, and often at a reduced price, of a large quantity of a particular commodity
  • busy signal — If you try to make a telephone call and get a busy signal, it means that you cannot make the call because the line is already being used by someone else.
  • calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
  • callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • caressingly — In a caressing manner; soothingly.
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carriageway — A carriageway is one side of a road on which traffic travelling in opposite directions is separated by a barrier.
  • carry light — a searchlight used to illuminate a target while it is tracked and fired upon.
  • carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
  • castigatory — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • cerargyrite — a soft mineral, AgCl, that is an ore of silver; silver chloride
  • chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
  • chikungunya — A viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes and endemic in East Africa and parts of Asia.
  • chirography — handwriting; penmanship
  • christology — the branch of theology concerned with the person, attributes, and deeds of Christ
  • chucklingly — In a chuckling manner.
  • city of god — heaven conceived of as the New Jerusalem
  • classifying — Denoting an adjective that describes the class that a head noun belongs to and characterized by not having a comparative or superlative (for example American, mortal ).
  • clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
  • cleistogamy — self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
  • climatology — the study of climate
  • clinchingly — in a clinching manner
  • cog railway — a railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
  • cognitively — in a cognitive manner
  • cognitivity — the state of being cognitive
  • cognizantly — In a cognizant manner.
  • collegially — collegiate.
  • confidingly — In a confiding manner; in a matter that confides.
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