9-letter words containing b, i, g, n
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.
- drabbling — Present participle of drabble.
- dribbling — Present participle of dribble.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- e-banking — E-banking is the use of the Internet to operate your bank account.
- eco-bling — equipment that is energy-efficient but less effective than simpler technology
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- embalming — Present participle of embalm.
- embarking — Present participle of embark.
- embedding — (mathematics) A map which maps a subspace (smaller structure) to the whole space (larger structure).
- embodying — Present participle of embody.
- embossing — Present participle of emboss.
- embracing — Present participle of embrace.
- ennobling — Present participle of ennoble.
- entombing — Present participle of entomb.
- forboding — Alternative form of foreboding.
- frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- fribbling — Present participle of fribble.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gabaonite — Gibeonite.
- gabardine — Also, gaberdine. a firm, tightly woven fabric of worsted, cotton, polyester, or other fiber, with a twill weave.
- gabbiness — The quality of being gabby.
- gaberdine — Also, gabardine. a long, loose coat or frock for men, worn in the Middle Ages, especially by Jews.
- gabionade — a row of gabions submerged in a waterway, stream, river, etc, to control the flow of water
- gabionage — a structure or fortification built with gabions
- gainsboro — A light bluish grey colour.
- gamboling — (US) present participle of gambol.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- garblings — Plural form of garbling.
- genoa jib — a large triangular jib sail, often with a foot that extends as far aft as the clew of the mainsail
- gerbiling — Present participle of gerbil.
- gibbering — to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly.
- gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibeonite — one of the inhabitants of Gibeon, who were condemned by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. Josh. 9.
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- girl band — A girl band is a band consisting of young women who sing pop music and dance.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- grabbings — Plural form of grabbing.
- grabbling — Present participle of grabble.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
- ignitable — to set on fire; kindle.