Inhibition force of precipitate particles for promoting abnormal grain growth in magnetostrictive Fe_(83)Ga_(17)-(B,NbC) alloy sheets was investigated in this study. After a continuous heating and a high-temperature annealing, the Fe_(83)Ga_(17) + 0.5 at% B alloy sheets do not occur significant abnormal grain growth. Correspondingly,textures of {111}<112> and {100}<001 > in addition to the Goss texture are obtained in the final annealed alloy sheets. By contrast, after the same annealing processes, the size of {110} textured grains is very large in the final annealed Fe_(83)Ga_(17) + 0.5 at% NbC alloy sheets due to the abnormal grain growth, which results in a sharp Goss texture. BN precipitates were introduced into Fe_(83)Ga_(17)+0.2 at% B alloy sheets by nitriding annealing at 800 ℃ for 2 min under NH_3 atmosphere. The abnormal grain growth of Goss grains is achieved in 0.2 at% B-doped Fe_(83)Ga_(17)alloy sheets after a high-temperature annealing, which is attributed to the enhanced inhibition force by introducing BN precipitates. During the recrystallization annealing process, Fe_2B precipitates is easy to coarsen and decompose at high temperature due to the low thermal stability,resulting in a decrease or even disappearance of the inhibition force. For NbC and BN precipitates, the thermal stability and hardness of particles are both better than those of Fe_2B precipitates, leading to strong inhibition force.Because of the preferred Goss texture, the magnetostriction of 2.05 × 10~(-4) and 1.81 × 10~(-4) is obtained in the secondary recrystallized Fe_(83)Ga_(17) + 0.5 at% NbC and Fe_(83)Ga_(17) + 0.2 at% B alloy sheets, respectively. Inhibition force of precipitated particles for promoting abnormal grain growth in magnetostrictive Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) - (B, NbC) alloy sheets was investigated in this study. After a continuous heating and a high-temperature annealing, Ga_ (17) + 0.5 at% B alloy sheets do not occur significant abnormal grain growth. Correspondingly, textures of {111} <112> and {100} <001> in addition to the Goss texture are obtained in the final annealed alloy sheets By contrast, after the same annealing processes, the size of {110} textured grains is very large in the final annealed Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) + 0.5 at% NbC alloy sheets due to the abnormal grain growth, which results in a sharp Goss texture. BN precipitates were introduced into Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) +0.2 at% B alloy sheets by nitriding annealing at 800 ℃ for 2 min under NH_3 atmosphere. The abnormal grain growth of Goss grains was achieved in 0.2 at % B-doped Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) alloy sheets after a high-temperature annealing, which is attributed to the enhancements During the recrystallization annealing process, Fe 2 B precipitates is easy to coarsen and decompose at high temperature due to the low thermal stability, resulting in a decrease or even disappearance of the inhibition force. For NbC and BN precipitates, the thermal stability and hardness of particles are both better than those of Fe 2 B precipitates, leading to strong inhibition force. Because of the preferred Goss texture, the magnetostriction of 2.05 × 10 -4 and 1.81 × 10 -4 is obtained in the secondary recrystallized Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) + 0.5 at% NbC and Fe_ (83) Ga_ (17) + 0.2 at% B alloy sheets, respectively