9-letter words containing a, b, g
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- bigotgate — an incident in the 2010 British general election in which the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described in private a voter he had met as a ‘bigoted woman’ not realizing that his radio microphone was still on and that his comments were being recorded
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bilingual — Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
- billabong — a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- black bag — a large sturdy black plastic or polythene bag used to put rubbish in
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
- black gum — a tall, deciduous tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) with sour purple fruits and leaves that turn scarlet in the fall, found in moist forests of the E U.S.
- black-bag — of, relating to, or distributing money for expenses that has been diverted from the regular budget: Black-bag funds have paid for much overseas travel by the military.
- blackgame — a large grouse found in northern Europe and Asia
- blazingly — in a blazing manner
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- bloggable — interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bodh gaya — a village in central Bihar, in NE India: site of tree under which Siddhartha became the Buddha.
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bog paper — toilet paper
- boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boogeyman — a frightening imaginary being, often one used as a threat in disciplining children
- boogieman — bogeyman.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- booze hag — a girl or woman who drinks to excess
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life