9-letter words containing a, b, o, g
- 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
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- cogitable — conceivable
- combating — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- dannebrog — the Danish flag
- diabology — the study of the devil or devils
- dodgeball — a circle game in which players throw an inflated ball at opponents within the circle who try to avoid being hit, and therefore eliminated, the winner being the one who remains unhit.
- doggy bag — a small bag provided on request by a restaurant for a customer to carry home leftovers of a meal, ostensibly to feed a dog or other pet.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
- embargoed — Simple past tense and past participle of embargo.
- embargoes — Plural form of embargo.
- floggable — that ought to be flogged; deserving of flogging
- forgeable — (metallurgy) That can be forged (shaped under heat and pressure).
- gabaonite — Gibeonite.
- gaberones — former name of Gaborone.
- gabionade — a row of gabions submerged in a waterway, stream, river, etc, to control the flow of water
- gabionage — a structure or fortification built with gabions
- gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- gambadoes — Gamashes; spatterdashes.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambolled — to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- gameboard — A portable surface on which a game is played, and which is marked for play of that game.
- gangboard — a raised walk on a sailing ship, crossing the waist and connecting the forecastle directly with the quarterdeck.
- gaolbreak — Alternative form of jailbreak.
- garbanzos — Plural form of garbanzo.