9-letter words containing a, g, r, i
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- astroglia — The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
- au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- baby girl — a female baby
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- balk ring — A balk ring is a rotating part of a gearbox that prevents the gears from engaging too early.
- ball girl — In a tennis match, the ball girls pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball girls are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- 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.
- 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.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- 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
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.