10-letter words containing a, g, n, l, i
- bellingham — seaport in NW Wash., at the N end of Puget Sound: pop. 67,000
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
- blabbering — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- black ring — a disease of grasses, characterized by black rings surrounding the stems and blighted seeds, caused by a fungus, Balansia strangulans.
- blanketing — a large, rectangular piece of soft fabric, often with bound edges, used especially for warmth as a bed covering.
- blathering — foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
- blazonings — heraldic adornments
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- branglings — a series of squabbles or disputes
- brattlings — a series of rattling or clattering sounds
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- cajolingly — In a cajoling manner.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- canalising — Present participle of canalise.
- canalizing — Present participle of canalize.
- cancelling — to make void; revoke; annul: to cancel a reservation.
- canoodling — Present participle of canoodle.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- carpooling — Present participle of carpool.
- cataloging — Make a systematic list of (items of the same type).
- catalysing — Present participle of catalyse.
- catalyzing — Present participle of catalyze.
- catcalling — Present participle of catcall.
- chaffingly — in a rallying yet light-hearted manner
- changeling — A changeling is a child who was put in the place of another child when they were both babies. In stories changelings were often taken or left by fairies.
- channeling — esp. in some New Age beliefs, the process by which a person becomes a conduit for a deceased person, as someone from an ancient culture, who imparts information about a previous life
- charmingly — In a charming manner.
- chavelling — Present participle of chavel.
- chiangling — a city in S Hubei province, in central China, on the Chang Jiang.
- chillaxing — Present participle of chillax.
- chilognath — any member of the diplopod subclass Chilognatha, including millipedes having exoskeletons heavily sclerotized with calcium carbonate.
- cingulated — Having a cingulum.
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clankingly — With a clanking sound.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clashingly — In a clashing manner.
- clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- cleggmania — the brief surge in popularity for the leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Nick Clegg, after a series of live televised debates preceding the 2010 British general election
- cliff-hang — to wait eagerly for the outcome of a suspenseful situation or contest.
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- coalescing — Present participle of coalesce.
- cognisable — Alternative form of cognizable.
- cognizable — perceptible