8-letter words containing b, a, g, n
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- gnawable — Capable of being gnawed.
- go blank — If your mind goes blank, you are suddenly unable to think of anything appropriate to say, for example in reply to a question.
- goon bag — the plastic bladder inside a box of (usually cheap) wine
- grabbing — Present participle of grab.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gynobase — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- habiting — Present participle of habit.
- handbags — a bag or box of leather, fabric, plastic, or the like, held in the hand or carried by means of a handle or strap, commonly used by women for holding money, toilet articles, small purchases, etc.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- ibogaine — an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.
- jingbang — (colloquial, chiefly, Scotland) thing, lot, shebang.
- jug band — a small group of performers who play chiefly blues or folk music on makeshift or very simple instruments, as washboards, harmonicas, kazoos, and empty jugs, the latter being played by blowing across the openings.
- labeling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lambling — a small lamb
- landgrab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- lansberg — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 29 miles (46 km) in diameter.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- mbaqanga — a style of Black popular music of urban South Africa
- megaband — (music, informal) A particularly successful band.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- nose bag — feed bag (def 1).
- nosebags — Plural form of nosebag.
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- saibling — the European char, Salvelinus alpinus, introduced into North America
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- signable — suitable for signing, as in being satisfactory, appropriate, or complete: a signable legislative bill.
- singable — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
- stabling — a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.