10-letter words containing n, a, g
- avengement — (rare) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
- avengeress — a female avenger
- averagings — average values
- avgolemono — a Greek soup made with eggs, lemon juice, and rice
- awakenings — Plural form of awakening.
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- azalignane — (organic compound) Any derivative of a lignane in which one or more of the benzene rings has been replaced with pyridine.
- babbitting — Present participle of babbitt.
- baby grand — a small grand piano, approximately 5 feet long
- baby sling — a pouch supported by straps at the shoulder or neck, used to carry small babies on one's chest
- back green — grass or a garden at the back of a house, esp a tenement
- back slang — a type of slang in which words are spelled and, as far as possible, pronounced backwards
- backbiting — If you accuse someone of backbiting, you mean that they say unpleasant or unkind things about someone who is not present, especially in order to stop them doing well at work.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- backgammon — Backgammon is a game for two people, played on a board marked with long triangles. Each player has 15 wooden or plastic discs. The players throw dice and move the discs around the board.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- backswings — Plural form of backswing.
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- baggageman — (US) a railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
- bainbridge — Beryl.1934–2010, British novelist and playwright. Novels include The Dressmaker (1973), Injury Time (1977), Master Georgie (1998), and According to Queeney (2001)
- baking tin — an open metal container in which dough, cake mixture etc can be placed for baking
- balbriggan — a knitted unbleached cotton fabric
- balenciaga — Cristobal (krisˈtoβal). 1895–1972, Spanish couturier
- ballasting — Nautical. any heavy material carried temporarily or permanently in a vessel to provide desired draft and stability.
- ballooning — Ballooning is the sport or activity of flying a hot-air balloon.
- balneology — the branch of medical science concerned with the therapeutic value of baths, esp those taken with natural mineral waters
- bandishing — Present participle of bandish.
- bandwaggon — Alt form bandwagon.
- bandwagons — Plural form of bandwagon.
- bangladesh — a republic in S Asia: formerly the Eastern Province of Pakistan; became independent in 1971 after civil war and the defeat of Pakistan by India; consists of the plains and vast deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers; prone to flooding: economy based on jute and jute products (over 70 per cent of world production); a member of the Commonwealth. Language: Bengali. Religion: Muslim. Currency: taka. Capital: Dhaka. Pop: 163 654 860 (2013 est). Area: 142 797 sq km (55 126 sq miles)
- bank night — Informal. (especially in the 1930s) an evening when prizes are awarded to members of the audience at a motion-picture theater.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- bantingism — a fat-reducing diet invented by William Banting, involving high protein intake, and low fat and carbohydrate intake
- bar magnet — a bar-shaped, usually permanent, magnet.
- baragnosis — loss of the ability to estimate or perceive the weight of an object.
- barasingha — Rucervus duvaucelii, the swamp deer.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargain on — to rely or depend on (something)
- bargainers — Plural form of bargainer.
- bargaining — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- bargestone — any of several stones forming the sloping edge of a gable.
- barn grass — a weedy, coarse grass, Echinochloa crus-galli, having a spikelike cluster of flowers.
- barognosis — the ability to judge weight
- baronetage — the order of baronets; baronets collectively
- barracking — Present participle of barrack.
- barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
- bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.