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11-letter words containing b, a, g, n, o

  • boomeranger — a young adult who returns to live with parents after a period of living away from home.
  • boring clam — piddock
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • boulangerie — a bakery shop, specif. one that specializes in breads, rolls, etc.
  • bounce game — (esp in soccer) a non-competitive game played as part of training
  • bowling bag — a bag for carrying a bowling ball and often bowling shoes or other equipment.
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brown algae — any algae of the phylum Phaeophyta, such as the wracks and kelps, which contain a brown pigment in addition to chlorophyll
  • brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
  • bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
  • cabbagetown — a former slum area of Toronto, now known for its Victorian architecture and thriving arts community
  • car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
  • concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
  • conglobated — in the form of a globe or ball
  • dealing box — a box that holds a deck or decks of cards, allowing them to be dealt only one at a time, often used in casino games such as blackjack or chemin de fer.
  • diabolizing — Present participle of diabolize.
  • diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • diving boat — a boat used as a tender for divers or others working under water.
  • dogger bank — a shoal in the North Sea, between N England and Denmark: fishing grounds; naval battle 1915.
  • dragon beam — dragging piece.
  • dragon book — (publication)   The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
  • elaborating — Present participle of elaborate.
  • emblazoning — Present participle of to emblazon.
  • embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
  • farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
  • four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
  • gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
  • geobotanist — a person who studies geobotany
  • giambologna — Giovanni da [jee-uh-vah-nee duh;; Italian jaw-vahn-nee dah] /ˌdʒi əˈvɑ ni də;; Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), (Jean de Boulogne; Giambologna) c1525–1608, Italian sculptor, born in France.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • globalising — Present participle of globalise.
  • globalizing — Present participle of globalize.
  • globigerina — any marine foraminifer of the genus Globigerina, having a calcareous shell, occurring either near the surface of the sea or in the mud at the bottom.
  • gobsmacking — Causing one to be gobsmacked; astounding, flabbergasting.
  • goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
  • goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
  • gombeen-man — a usurer or moneylender.
  • gonimoblast — a spore-bearing filament in the carpogonium of red algae
  • granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
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