8-letter words containing g, a, b, l
- benguela — a port in W Angola: founded in 1617; a terminus (with Lobito) of the railway that runs from Beira in Mozambique through the Copper Belt of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Pop: about 200 000 (1990 est)
- bergfall — an avalanche
- big deal — If you say that something is a big deal, you mean that it is important or significant in some way.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- blabbing — to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
- blackgum — Nyssa sylvatica, a deciduous tree of the genus Nyssa native to North America
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blackleg — a person who acts against the interests of a trade union, as by continuing to work during a strike or taking over a striker's job
- blagging — informal conversation in a public place, often deceitful.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blatting — bleat.
- bleating — to utter the cry of a sheep, goat, or calf or a sound resembling such a cry.
- blindage — (esp formerly) a protective screen or structure, as over a trench
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blue bag — a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
- blue gas — water gas.
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- boogaloo — a type of dance performed to rock and roll music
- brailing — Nautical. any of several horizontal lines fastened to the edge of a fore-and-aft sail or lateen sail, for gathering in the sail.
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- bugzilla — (programming) The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
- bulgakov — Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- calbayog — a city in the Philippines, on NW Samar.
- clangbox — a device fitted to a jet-engine to change the direction of thrust
- club bag — a soft, usually leather, two-handled bag suitable for use in traveling or for general utility.
- cool bag — an insulated container used to keep food cool on picnics, to carry frozen food, etc
- dabbling — the fact of being involved in an activity in a frivolous or superficial way
- diggable — capable of being dug
- dillybag — (Australia) Alternative form of dilly bag.
- enabling — software enabling
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- fleabags — Plural form of fleabag.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbling — Present participle of gabble.
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- galabieh — djellabah.
- galabiya — djellabah.