10-Letter Words Starting B & Ending GS

• The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.

• The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.

• A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.

• A rope used to secure a cannon.

• (equestrian) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.

• Eurasian finch

• the string of an archer's bow

• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

• obtaining funds from a lender

• (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed

• passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination

• the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

• a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently

• a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high