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

  • jawboning — a bone of either jaw; a maxilla or mandible.
  • keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
  • king crab — horseshoe crab.
  • kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
  • labelling — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
  • labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
  • land grab — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
  • langobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
  • lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
  • librating — Present participle of librate.
  • lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
  • log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
  • longbeard — bellarmine.
  • longboard — A type of long surfboard.
  • longboats — Plural form of longboat.
  • longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
  • m-banking — the practice of making financial transactions or managing bank accounts using mobile phone technology
  • managable — Misspelling of manageable.
  • mandelbug — (jargon, programming)   /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
  • mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
  • money-bag — a bag for money.
  • moneybags — a bag for money.
  • mung bean — small green legume
  • navigable — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
  • noble gas — any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of group 8A or 0 of the periodic table: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
  • nunny bag — a small sealskin haversack, used chiefly in Newfoundland
  • oblongata — medulla oblongata.
  • obtaining — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
  • obviating — Present participle of obviate.
  • onega bay — a bay in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, at the SW end of the White Sea. 100 miles (160 km) long.
  • palembang — a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.
  • plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
  • pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
  • rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
  • rabbiting — Present participle of rabbit.
  • ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
  • ring back — If you ring someone back, you phone them either because they phoned you earlier and you were not there or because you did not finish an earlier telephone conversation.
  • rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
  • sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters
  • shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
  • sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • signboard — a board bearing a sign.
  • slam-bang — with noisy violence: He drove slam-bang through the garage door.
  • slap bang — exactly
  • slap-bang — slam-bang.
  • slingback — Also called sling. a woman's shoe with an open back and a strap or sling encircling the heel of the foot to keep the shoe secure.
  • spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
  • subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
  • subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
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