9-letter words containing a, b, g
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- aurangzeb — 1618–1707, Mogul emperor of Hindustan (1658–1707), whose reign marked both the height of Mogul prosperity and the decline of its power through the revolts of the Marathas
- aurungzeb — Aurangzeb
- babington — Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
- baby girl — a female baby
- back gear — (in a lathe) one of several gears for driving the headstock at various speeds.
- backlight — light falling on a photographic or television subject from the rear
- backsight — the sight of a rifle nearer the stock
- backstage — In a theatre, backstage refers to the areas behind the stage.
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgeless — without a badge
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- bafflegab — deliberately obscure language employed in official documents
- bag table — a sewing table or worktable having a suspended pouch or bag for holding needlework.
- bagatelle — something of little value or significance; trifle
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- baguettes — Plural form of baguette.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- bailliage — the office or district of a bailiff
- bakegoods — baked goods, as bread, cakes, or pies.
- balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- balk ring — A balk ring is a rotating part of a gearbox that prevents the gears from engaging too early.
- balkingly — in a balking manner
- ball game — Ball games are games that are played with a ball such as tennis, baseball, and football.
- ball girl — In a tennis match, the ball girls pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball girls are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
- balloting — voting in an election
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- band-gala — (in India) (of a coat) closed at the neck
- bandaging — Strips of cloth or other material used to create a bandage.
- bandwagon — You can refer to an activity or movement that has suddenly become fashionable or popular as a bandwagon.
- bang goes — that is the end of
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- bang-bang — war and fighting, esp involving ammunition
- bangalore — a city in S India, capital of Karnataka state: printing, textiles, pharmaceuticals. Pop: 4 292 223 (2001)
- bangaluru — a city in and the capital of Karnataka, in SW India.
- bangarang — A commotion.
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- banishing — Present participle of banish.
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.