9-letter words containing a, n, g, e
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
- 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.
- bagginess — The characteristic of being baggy.
- 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
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bang goes — that is the end of
- bangalore — a city in S India, capital of Karnataka state: printing, textiles, pharmaceuticals. Pop: 4 292 223 (2001)
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beaconage — a number or system of beacons.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- beamingly — in a beaming manner
- beastings — beestings
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beguinage — a convent for members of the Beguine sisterhood
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- ben hogan — Ben, 1912–97, U.S. golfer.
- bengalese — Bengali adjective
- bengaline — a heavy corded fabric, esp silk with woollen or cotton cord
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- benignant — kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- 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.
- 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