6-letter words containing n, b, g
- binnig — Gerd (Karl). born 1947, German physicist: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1986) for work on the superconductivity of semiconductors and development of the scanning tunnelling microscope
- biogen — a hypothetical protein assumed to be the basis of the formation and functioning of body cells and tissues
- biting — Biting wind or cold is extremely cold.
- bluing — a blue liquid, powder, etc. used in rinsing white fabrics to prevent yellowing
- blunge — to mix (clay or a similar substance) with water in order to form a suspension for use in ceramics
- boding — an omen; foreboding
- boeing — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- bog in — to start energetically on a task
- bogman — the body of a person found preserved in a peat bog
- bogong — an edible dark-coloured Australian noctuid moth, Agrotis infusa
- boning — Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
- booing — the action or an instance of booing
- boonga — a Pacific Islander
- boring — Someone or something boring is so dull and uninteresting that they make people tired and impatient.
- bowing — the technique of using the bow in playing a violin, viola, cello, or related instrument
- boxing — Boxing is a sport in which two people wearing large padded gloves fight according to special rules.
- brings — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
- brogan — a heavy laced usually ankle-high work boot
- buggan — an evil spirit
- bugong — bogong.
- bunged — a stopper for the opening of a cask.
- bungee — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing
- bunger — a firework
- bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
- busing — the practice of transporting by bus
- butung — an island of Indonesia, southeast of Sulawesi: hilly and forested. Chief town: Baubau. Area: 4555 sq km (1759 sq miles)
- buying — (as modifier)
- bygone — Bygone means happening or existing a very long time ago.
- cubing — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- dagnab — (euphemistic) damn (as an expletive).
- ebbing — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- elbing — a port in N Poland: metallurgical industries. Pop: 129 000 (2005 est)
- engobe — a liquid put on pottery before glazing
- gabaon — Gibeon.
- gabion — a cylinder of wickerwork filled with earth, used as a military defense.
- gaboon — Also called gaboon mahogany. the soft, reddish-brown wood of an African tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used for making furniture.
- gangbo — (in England and Wales) a civil order restricting the activities of a gang member
- gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- gibeon — a town in ancient Palestine, NW of Jerusalem. Josh. 9:3.
- gibing — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
- gibran — Kahlil [kah-leel] /kɑˈlil/ (Show IPA), 1883–1931, Lebanese mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist; in the U.S. after 1910.
- gibson — Althea, 1927–2003, U.S. tennis player.
- globin — the protein component of hemoglobin, made up of alpha and beta chains.
- gnu bc — A GNU version of BC which is self-contained and internally executes its own compiled code rather than acting as a front-end to DC like the standard Unix bc. Version 1.02 parser (yacc), interpreter, BC math library Philip A. Nelson <[email protected]> FTP bc-1.02.tar.Z from a GNU archive site. requires: vsprintf and vfprintf routines ports: Unix (BSD, System V, MINIX, POSIX) Superset of POSIX BC (P10003.2/D11), with a POSIX-only mode.
- gobang — a Japanese game played on a go board with players alternating and attempting to be first to place five counters in a row.
- gobian — a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. About 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
- goblin — a grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
- gobony — compony.
- graben — a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has dropped downward in relation to adjacent portions.
- granby — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada.