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

  • embrangling — Present participle of embrangle.
  • embrocating — Present participle of embrocate.
  • energy band — a range of energies associated with the quantum states of electrons in a crystalline solid. In a semiconductor or an insulator there is a valence band containing many states, most of which are occupied. Above this is a forbidden band with only a few isolated states caused by impurities. Above this is a conduction band containing many states most of which are empty. In a metal there is a continuous valence-conduction band
  • enlargeable — Capable of being enlarged.
  • exchangable — Alternative spelling of exchangeable.
  • exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
  • fabricating — Present participle of fabricate.
  • farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
  • fimbriating — Present participle of fimbriate.
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
  • fixing bath — a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
  • 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.
  • gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
  • gang-banger — a member of a violent street gang.
  • gangbangers — Plural form of gangbanger.
  • gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
  • garage band — a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group
  • garbage can — a container, usually of metal or plastic, for the disposal of waste matter, especially kitchen refuse.
  • garbage man — refuse collector
  • garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
  • gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
  • 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
  • gender bias — sexual discrimination
  • 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.
  • gimbal-ring — Sometimes, gimbal. a contrivance, consisting of a ring or base on an axis, that permits an object, as a ship's compass, mounted in or on it to tilt freely in any direction, in effect suspending the object so that it will remain horizontal even when its support is tipped.
  • gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
  • glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
  • 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.
  • glazing-bar — a supporting or strengthening bar for a glass window, door, etc
  • 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
  • grab handle — A grab handle is a handle on the side of an object such as a bathtub that you hold in order to help you get in and out.
  • grand banks — an extensive shoal SE of Newfoundland: fishing grounds. 350 miles (565 km) long; 40,000 sq. mi. (104,000 sq. km).
  • grandbabies — Plural form of grandbaby.
  • granny bond — (in Britain) an informal name for retirement issue certificate, an index-linked savings certificate, originally available only to people over retirement age
  • great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
  • green beans — the narrow green edible pods of a green bean plant
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
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