8-letter words containing g, a, n
- blacking — any preparation, esp one containing lampblack, for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
- blagging — informal conversation in a public place, often deceitful.
- 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.
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bowyangs — a pair of strings or straps secured round each trouser leg below the knee, worn esp by sheep-shearers and other labourers
- braiding — braids collectively
- 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.
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- braining — Anatomy, Zoology. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the mental and physical actions.
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- branking — to hold up and toss the head, as a horse when spurning the bit or prancing.
- branting — Karl Hjalmar (jalmar). 1860–1925, Swedish politician; prime minister (1920; 1921–23; 1924–25). He founded Sweden's welfare state and shared the Nobel peace prize 1921
- bratling — a small badly-behaved child
- brawling — a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight.
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- bretagne — Brittany2
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bungalow — A bungalow is a house which has only one level, and no stairs.
- bungwall — an Australian fern, Blechnum indicum, having an edible rhizome
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- caatinga — a Brazilian semi-arid scrub forest
- cabining — Present participle of cabin.
- cackling — Present participle of cackle.
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cageling — a bird kept in a cage
- caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
- caingang — a member of an Indian people of southern Brazil.
- cajoling — Present participle of cajole.
- callings — Plural form of calling.
- campagna — a low-lying plain surrounding Rome, Italy: once fertile, it deteriorated to malarial marshes; but has since been reclaimed. Area: about 2000 sq km (800 sq miles)
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- campaign — A campaign is a planned set of activities that people carry out over a period of time in order to achieve something such as social or political change.
- canaigre — a dock, Rumex hymenosepalus, of the southern US, the root of which yields a substance used in tanning
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.