9-letter words containing b, a, g, n
- bang into — a loud, sudden, explosive noise, as the discharge of a gun.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- bang-bang — war and fighting, esp involving ammunition
- bangalore — a city in S India, capital of Karnataka state: printing, textiles, pharmaceuticals. Pop: 4 292 223 (2001)
- bangaluru — a city in and the capital of Karnataka, in SW India.
- bangarang — A commotion.
- bangweulu — shallow lake in N Zambia: including swamps, 3,800 sq mi (9,842 sq km)
- banishing — Present participle of banish.
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- 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.
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- 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
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bigeminal — happening in pairs
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bilingual — Bilingual means involving or using two languages.