10-letter words containing n, a, u, g
- audiogenic — caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency
- aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
- augmenting — to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- aurangabad — city in central Maharashtra, W India: pop. 573,000
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- 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.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- barbecuing — Present participle of barbecue.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- beating-up — a physical assault
- bi-lingual — able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
- black lung — pneumoconiosis of coal miners, caused by coal dust; anthracosis.
- blue angel — a blue capsule or tablet containing the barbiturate amobarbital or its derivative.
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- caucussing — the act of holding a private, often secret meeting of members of a political party prior to an election or general party meeting
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- chuang-tzu — Also, Chwang-tse. (Chuang Chow) flourished 4th century b.c, Chinese mystic and philosopher.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.