| ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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| ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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| bag | (noun) an activity that you like or at which you are superior | Synonyms: cup of tea, dish |
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| (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: udder |
| (noun) a flexible container with a single opening | - |
| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: handbag, pocketbook, purse |
| (noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) an ugly or ill-tempered woman | Synonyms: old bag |
| (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bagful |
| (noun) the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person) | - |
| bagascosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagassosis |
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| bagasse | (noun) the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants | - |
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| bagassosis | (noun) alveolitis caused by inhaling bagasse (sugarcane dust) | Synonyms: bagascosis |
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| bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
| bagel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: beigel |
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| bagful | (noun) the quantity that a bag will hold | Synonyms: bag |
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| baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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| (noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
| (noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
| baggageman | (noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage | - |
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| bagger | (noun) a machine for putting objects or substances into bags | - |
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| (noun) a workman employed to pack things into containers | Synonyms: boxer, packer |
| bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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| bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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| (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
| bagnio | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bathhouse |
| bagpipe | (noun) a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone | - |
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| bagpiper | (noun) someone who plays the bagpipe | Synonyms: piper |
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| baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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| baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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| bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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| balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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| beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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| cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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| (noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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| carpetbag | (noun) traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century | - |
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| carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| feedbag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: nosebag |
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| fleabag | (noun) a run-down hotel | - |
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| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| garbage | (noun) a receptacle where waste can be discarded | - |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: drivel |
| (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, refuse, scraps |
| garbageman | (noun) someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse | Synonyms: dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, refuse collector |
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| gasbag | (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: envelope |
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| (noun) a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | Synonyms: windbag |
| handbag | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, pocketbook, purse |
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| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| kitbag | (noun) a knapsack (usually for a soldier) | Synonyms: kit bag |
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| lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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| mailbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: postbag |
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| (noun) pouch used in the shipment of mail | Synonyms: mail pouch |
| moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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| nosebag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: feedbag |
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| plumbago | (noun) any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago | - |
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| (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, graphite |
| postbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: mailbag |
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| ragbag | (noun) a bag in which rags are kept | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum |
| rutabaga | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga plant, swede, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| sandbag | (noun) a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast | - |
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| sandbagger | (noun) someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you | - |
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| schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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| scumbag | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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| seabag | (noun) a cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear | - |
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| sickbag | (noun) a bag provided on an airplane for passengers who are suffering from airsickness and need to vomit | Synonyms: sick bag |
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| tuckerbag | (noun) a bag used for carrying food | Synonyms: tucker-bag |
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| windbag | (noun) a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | Synonyms: gasbag |
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| workbag | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbasket, workbox |
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| zabaglione | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: sabayon |
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