9-letter words containing a, b, r, g
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barrelage — an amount, esp of beer, as measured in barrels
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- bavardage — idle chattering
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beargrass — a North-West American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, belonging to the lily family but resembling tall grass
- bedraggle — to make (hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brannigan — a noisy quarrel
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen