9-letter words containing a, d, g
- bavardage — idle chattering
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedraggle — to make (hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- black dog — depression or melancholy
- 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
- 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.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catch dog — a dog used to help round up livestock.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- cleavaged — Having (a particular kind of) cleavage.
- clogdance — a folk dance characterized by heavy stamping steps, performed while wearing clogs
- coach dog — Dalmatian
- code flag — a flag forming part of a signal code.
- cogitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogitate.
- congealed — Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.