8-letter words containing g
- bagwoman — a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money.
- bagworms — Plural form of bagworm.
- bailings — Plural form of bailing.
- bakwanga — former name of Mbuji-Mayi.
- balaguer — Joaquin (ˈjoːakɪn). 1907–2002, Dominican statesman; president of the Dominican Republic (1960–62, 1966–78, 1986–96)
- balayage — a technique for highlighting hair in which bleach or dye is painted onto sections of the hair with a brush
- balisage — a method of marking a land route with dim lighting so that vehicles can travel at higher speeds in blackout conditions.
- ballarag — (archaic, transitive) To bully; to threaten.
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
- ballgown — A ballgown is a long dress that women wear to formal dances.
- ballyrag — bullyrag.
- bandaged — Simple past tense and past participle of bandage.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandoeng — Bandung.
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bang out — If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- bangable — (slang) Sexually attractive.
- bangalay — a myrtaceous Australian tree, Eucalyptus botryoides, valued for its hard red wood
- bangalow — an Australian palm, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, native to New South Wales and Queensland
- bangster — a ruffian; thug
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- bantengs — Plural form of banteng.
- bantings — Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- bar game — any game or contest that takes place in a pub
- bar girl — an attractive girl employed by the management of a bar to befriend male customers and encourage them to buy drinks
- bar-girl — a barmaid.
- barangay — The smallest administrative division in the Philippines; a village, district, or ward.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- barf bag — Slang. a disposable paper bag provided by airlines for each passenger in the event of air sickness and usually placed in the pocket behind every seat.
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- bargello — a needlepoint embroidery stitch producing a zigzag pattern
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barghest — (in the North of England, esp Yorkshire) a goblin that appears in the shape of a dog as an omen of death or other misfortune
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barn egg — an egg laid by a chicken that is allowed to move freely within a barn
- barogram — the record of atmospheric pressure traced by a barograph or similar instrument
- barology — (obsolete, physics) The science of gravity or weight.
- baronage — barons collectively
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barrages — Plural form of barrage.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bashings — Plural form of bashing.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.