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9-letter words containing a, n, o, r, g

  • bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
  • baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
  • barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
  • boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
  • boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. 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
  • 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.
  • cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
  • carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
  • carolling — a song, especially of joy.
  • carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
  • cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
  • cavorting — to prance or caper about.
  • charangos — Plural form of charango.
  • chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
  • clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
  • clangours — Plural form of clangour.
  • collaring — Present participle of collar.
  • comparing — Present participle of compare.
  • corniglia — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
  • corrading — Present participle of corrade.
  • corraling — Present participle of corral.
  • couraging — Present participle of courage.
  • craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
  • crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
  • currajong — kurrajong
  • currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
  • dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
  • dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
  • dannebrog — the Danish flag
  • de morganAugustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
  • dog train — a sleigh drawn by a team of dogs
  • doggerman — a sailor on a dogger
  • dognapper — Agent noun of dognap; one who dognaps.
  • downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
  • downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
  • drag down — demoralize
  • drag into — To drag something or someone into an event or situation means to involve them in it when it is not necessary or not desirable.
  • draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
  • dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
  • dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
  • dragonfly — any of numerous stout-bodied, nonstinging insects of the order Odonata (suborder Anisoptera), the species of which prey on mosquitoes and other insects and are distinguished from the damselflies by having the wings outstretched rather than folded when at rest.
  • dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
  • dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
  • dragonize — to turn into a dragon
  • dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
  • dragooner — (obsolete) A dragoon.
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