10-letter words containing b, e, g, r
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - green crab — a yellowish-green crab, Carcinides maenas, common in shallow waters along rocky shores.
- greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
- greenbelts — Plural form of greenbelt.
- greenboard — a green chalkboard or blackboard.
- greenbrier — catbrier.
- greensboro — a city in N North Carolina.
- greensburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- grub screw — headless metal bolt
- grubbiness — dirty; slovenly: children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
- grubstreet — produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.
- gubernator — a governor
- guest beer — a draught beer stocked by a bar, often for a limited period, in addition to its usual range
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- gun barrel — firearm: tube-shaped part
- habergeons — Plural form of habergeon.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
- harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
- hardenberg — Novalis.
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- headbanger — metalhead.
- heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
- heisenberg — Werner Karl [ver-nuh r kahrl] /ˈvɛr nər kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1901–76, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- highbinder — a swindler; confidence man; cheat.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- humblebrag — a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.
- humbuggery — pretense; sham.
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- ice bridge — a body of ice that forms across the width of a river and is strong enough to bear traffic
- ignimbrite — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting mainly of welded shards of feldspar and quartz.
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- inarguable — not arguable: Her conclusion is so obvious as to be inarguable.
- inbreaking — The act of breaking in; incursion; invasion; inroad.
- inbreeding — the mating of closely related individuals, as cousins, sire-daughter, brother-sister, or self-fertilized plants, which tends to increase the number of individuals that are homozygous for a trait and therefore increases the appearance of recessive traits.
- integrable — capable of being integrated, as a mathematical function or differential equation.
- interabang — a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
- jabberings — Plural form of jabbering.
- jitterbugs — Plural form of jitterbug.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc