10-letter words containing g
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- borborygmi — a rumbling or gurgling sound caused by the movement of gas in the intestines.
- bordraging — an attack or raid on a border region
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- boring bar — Metalworking. a bar holding a tool for boring a cylinder or the like.
- boringness — the quality of being boring
- born-again — A born-again Christian is a person who has become an evangelical Christian as a result of a religious experience.
- borrowings — a company's liabilities or indebtedness
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- bottom dog — underdog.
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
- bouncingly — in a bouncing manner
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
- bousingken — a drinking house frequented by thieves or other disreputable characters
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bow-legged — outward curvature of the legs causing a separation of the knees when the ankles are close or in contact.
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- bowldering — pavement made with small boulders.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- bowser bag — doggy bag.
- box girder — a girder that is hollow and square or rectangular in shape
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- boxing day — Boxing Day is the 26th of December, the day after Christmas Day.
- brachylogy — a concise style in speech or writing
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- braggartly — in a braggart or boastful manner
- brain gain — the immigration into a country of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, attracted by better pay, equipment, or conditions
- brandering — furring (def 4b).
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brass ring — great success or a highly valued prize; also, an opportunity for this
- bratticing — a partition or lining, as of planks or cloth, forming an air passage in a mine.
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
- bridegroom — A bridegroom is a man who is getting married.
- bridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- bridgehead — A bridgehead is a good position which an army has taken in the enemy's territory and from which it can advance or attack.
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- bridgetalk — (language) A visual language.
- bridgetown — the capital of Barbados, a port on the SW coast. Pop: 144 000 (2005 est)
- bridgetree — a beam supporting the shaft on which an upper millstone rotates.
- bridgewall — (in a furnace or boiler) a transverse baffle that serves to deflect products of combustion.
- bridgework — a partial denture attached to the surrounding teeth
- bridgwater — a town in SW England, in central Somerset. Pop: 36 563 (2001)
- brig. gen. — Brig. Gen. is a written abbreviation for brigadier general.
- brigandage — plundering by brigands