11-letter words that end in g
- backlogging — a reserve or accumulation, as of stock, work, or business: a backlog of business orders.
- backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
- backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
- backsolving — Present participle of backsolve.
- backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
- backtalking — Present participle of backtalk.
- backwashing — A form of water treatment in which water is pumped backwards through the filter media, sometimes with intermittent use of compressed air.
- bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
- badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- baitcasting — (angling) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure).
- balance lug — a lugsail having a portion of its area forward of the mast and having a long foot, often with a boom.
- ballbearing — Alternative form of ball bearing.
- ballyhooing — Present participle of ballyhoo.
- balmain bug — a flattish edible Australian shellfish, Ibacus peronii, similar to the Moreton Bay bug
- bamboozling — Present participle of bamboozle.
- banana plug — a small single-conductor electrical plug having a curved metal spring along its shank forming a clip to hold it in its socket
- banana slug — a large, bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk, Ariolimax columbianus, of the northwestern forests of North America: the second largest slug in the world.
- banistering — Present participle of banister.
- bankrolling — Present participle of bankroll.
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
- barbary fig — prickly pear.
- barebacking — sexual intercourse performed without the use of a condom
- barricading — Present participle of barricade.
- baserunning — the act of running around bases
- battery egg — an egg from a battery hen
- bayonetting — (British) present participle of bayonet.
- be laughing — to be in a favourable situation
- beam riding — a method of missile guidance in which the missile steers itself along the axis of a conically scanned microwave beam
- bearbaiting — an old form of diversion in which dogs were made to torment a chained bear
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- bed molding — a molding below a projecting part, esp. between the corona and frieze
- bed-wetting — the act or habit of involuntarily urinating in bed
- bedclothing — bedclothes; bedding.
- bedevilling — (British) present participle of bedevil.
- bedraggling — Present participle of bedraggle.
- bedside rug — a rug beside a bed
- before long — If you say that something will happen or happened before long, you mean that it will happen or happened soon.
- bellyaching — constant complaining
- benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- bequeathing — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
- bermuda bag — an oval-shaped handbag with wooden handles and changeable decorative cloth covers.
- bermuda rig — a fore-and-aft sailing boat rig characterized by a tall mainsail (Bermudian mainsail) that tapers to a point
- bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- biomodeling — the mathematical modeling of biological reactions.
- bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
- birddogging — the act of pursuing with determination
- bit bashing — (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit.
- bit-robbing — in-band signalling