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8-letter words containing g

  • big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
  • big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
  • big easy — the New Orleans
  • big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
  • big fish — If you describe someone as a big fish, you believe that they are powerful or important in some way.
  • big five — the five countries considered to be the major world powers. In the period immediately following World War II, the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France were regarded as the Big Five
  • big foot — a very large, hairy, humanoid creature reputed to inhabit wilderness areas of the U.S. and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.
  • big game — Large wild animals such as lions and elephants that are hunted for sport are often referred to as big game.
  • big guns — an influential or important person or thing: He's a big gun in science.
  • big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
  • big head — If you describe someone as a big head, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
  • big hook — wrecking crane.
  • big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
  • 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 mama — a man's sweetheart, girlfriend, or wife.
  • big name — A big name is a person who is successful and famous because of their work.
  • big road — a main road or highway.
  • big room — (jargon, humour)   The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
  • big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
  • big talk — bragging or boasting talk
  • big tent — a political approach in which a party claims to be open to a wide spectrum of constituents and groups
  • big time — You can use big time to refer to the highest level of an activity or sport where you can achieve the greatest amount of success or importance. If you describe a person as big time, you mean they are successful and important.
  • big tree — a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres
  • 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-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
  • 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.
  • bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
  • bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
  • bigarade — a Seville orange
  • 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.
  • bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
  • bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
  • bigstick — of, or relating to, irresistible military strength
  • bijugate — (of compound leaves) having two pairs of leaflets
  • 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
  • biograph — a biographical summary
  • biologic — pertaining to biology.
  • birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
  • bird dog — a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot
  • bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
  • birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
  • 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.
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