9-letter words containing b, e, g, t
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bloodgate — an incident during the 2010 Heineken Cup quarter-final in which winger Tom Williams faked a bleeding mouth injury to create a substitution opportunity for his team, the Harlequins
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- bogue out — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterward." See also bogosity.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- 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
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- budgeteer — a person who makes a budget, esp in politics or business
- budgeting — financial planning
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- cogitable — conceivable
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- eggbeater — a small rotary beater for beating eggs, whipping cream, etc.
- ego boost — something such as praise, success, etc, that makes one feel better about oneself or raises one's morale
- eightball — (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
- entombing — Present participle of entomb.
- eyebright — any scrophulariaceous annual plant of the genus Euphrasia, esp E. nemorosa, having small white-and-purple two-lipped flowers: formerly used in the treatment of eye disorders
- fatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
- fightable — able or ready to fight
- gabaonite — Gibeonite.
- geobotany — phytogeography.
- germ tube — a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- getatable — Capable of being got at; accessible.
- gibbeting — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
- gibbetted — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of gibbet.
- gibeonite — one of the inhabitants of Gibeon, who were condemned by Joshua to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. Josh. 9.
- gigabytes — Plural form of gigabyte.
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- globetrot — to travel throughout the world, especially regularly or frequently.
- globulite — (mineral) A rudimentary spherical form of crystallite.
- go to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- grantable — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- greenbelt — a town in central Maryland.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- gutbucket — jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.