5-letter words containing n, g
- bangs — Bangs are hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- bangy — (India) A type of yoke carried on the shoulders, as a means for people to carry a load.
- began — Began is the past tense of begin.
- begin — To begin to do something means to start doing it.
- begun — Begun is the past participle of begin.
- being — Being is the present participle of be1.
- benga — a Kenyan popular music featuring guitars
- bhang — a preparation of the leaves and flower tops of Indian hemp, which has psychoactive properties: much used in India
- binge — If you go on a binge, you do too much of something, such as drinking alcohol, eating, or spending money.
- bingo — Bingo is a game in which each player has a card with numbers on. Someone calls out numbers and if you are the first person to have all your numbers called out, you win the game.
- bingy — belly.
- bling — Some people refer to expensive or fancy jewellery as bling or bling-bling.
- bogan — (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
- bogon — /boh'gon/ (By analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's "Vogons") 1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics). For instance, "the Ethernet is emitting bogons again" means that it is broken or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion. 2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit. 3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network. 4. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses. See also bogosity; compare psyton, fat electrons, magic smoke. The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the "clutron" or "cluon" (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to "explain" otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalisation from "(bogus particle) theories" to "bogus (particle theories)"!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the "futon") yields additional flavour.
- boing — to rebound making a noise
- bongo — A bongo is a small drum that you play with your hands.
- boong — an Aborigine or Black person
- bring — If you bring someone or something with you when you come to a place, they come with you or you have them with you.
- brung — a past participle and simple past tense of bring.
- cbing — the operating of a CB radio.
- chang — largest river and chief commercial highway of China, flowing from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai: 3,964 mi (6,379 km)
- cheng — Alternative form of sheng (Chinese wind instrument).
- ching — of, relating to, or designating the Manchu dynasty (1644–1912) of China
- chung — (in Confucianism) conscientiousness in one's dealings with others.
- clang — When a large metal object clangs, it makes a loud noise.
- cling — If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly.
- clong — (obsolete) Past participle of cling.
- clung — Clung is the past tense and past participle of cling.
- cogon — any of the coarse tropical grasses of the genus Imperata, esp I. cylindrica and I. exaltata of the Philippines, which are used for thatching
- coign — quoin.
- cong. — congius
- conga — If a group of people dance a conga, they dance in a long winding line, with each person holding on to the back of the person in front.
- conge — permission to depart or dismissal, esp when formal
- congo — the second longest river in Africa, rising as the Lualaba on the Katanga plateau in the Democratic Republic of Congo and flowing in a wide northerly curve to the Atlantic: forms the border between Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Length: about 4800 km (3000 miles). Area of basin: about 3 000 000 sq km (1 425 000 sq miles)
- congs — Informal. Vietcong.
- contg — containing
- cuing — a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- dagan — an earth god of the Babylonians and Assyrians
- dagon — a god worshipped by the Philistines, represented as half man and half fish
- dangs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dang.
- degen — (cant) Sword.
- deign — If you say that someone deigned to do something, you are expressing your disapproval of the fact that they did it unwillingly, because they thought they were too important to do it.
- deng. — Doctor of Engineering
- dinge — the condition of being dingy.
- dingo — a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
- dings — to cause surface damage to; dent: Flying gravel had dinged the car's fenders.
- dingy — of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
- djing — The role of a DJ (disk jockey).
- dogan — (chiefly, Canada, offensive, sometimes, capitalized) A Roman Catholic, especially one of Irish origin.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition (November 2010).
- dogon — a member of a group of indigenous people of the mountains of central Mali.