9-letter words containing g, a, d, i
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- audiology — the scientific study of hearing, often including the treatment of persons with hearing defects
- autoguide — a traffic information transmission system designed to stop congestion
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badinages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badinage.
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bandaging — Strips of cloth or other material used to create a bandage.
- bang tidy — of exceptionally good quality
- 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.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big daddy — someone or something dominantly important, powerful, wealthy, or, often, paternalistic
- big media — the mainstream media, as television and newspapers: blogs that compete with big media.
- bigheaded — Informal. an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit.
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
- cadencing — rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words: the cadence of language.
- cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
- carangids — Plural form of carangid.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- cardialgy — cardialgia
- cardigans — Plural form of cardigan.
- cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
- cascading — Present participle of cascade.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- cogitated — Simple past tense and past participle of cogitate.
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- crusading — campaigning
- dacoitage — (in India and Myanmar) a robbery by an armed gang or dacoit
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- daggering — A type of dance associated with dancehall, where dancer simulate dry sex to the musical beat.
- dagnabbit — (US, euphemistic, dated) goddamnit.
- damasking — Present participle of damask.
- damningly — in a damning manner
- dampening — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
- dandering — Present participle of dander.
- darkening — Present participle of darken.
- darklings — in darkness