8-letter words containing b, g, i
- bring in — When a government or organization brings in a new law or system, they introduce it.
- bring on — If something brings on an illness, pain, or feeling, especially one that you often suffer from, it causes you to have it.
- bring to — If you bring someone to when they are unconscious, you make them become conscious again.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- bringing — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
- brisking — quick and active; lively: brisk trading; a brisk walk.
- brisling — another name for a sprat, esp a Norwegian sprat seasoned, smoked, and canned in oil
- broguish — having or tending to a brogue
- broiling — If the weather is broiling, it is very hot.
- bronzing — blue pigment producing a metallic lustre when ground into paint media at fairly high concentrations
- brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
- brooming — an implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bruising — If someone has bruising on their body, they have bruises on it.
- bubbling — a nearly spherical body of gas contained in a liquid.
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- bugzilla — (programming) The web-based bug tracking system used by the Mozilla project.
- building — A building is a structure that has a roof and walls, for example a house or a factory.
- bulganin — Nikolai Aleksandrovich (nikaˈlaj alɪkˈsandrəvitʃ). 1895–1975, Soviet statesman and military leader; chairman of the council of ministers (1955–58)
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullgine — a steam locomotive
- bullring — A bullring is a circular area of ground surrounded by rows of seats where bullfights take place.
- bullying — the intimidation of weaker people
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bundling — several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bungling — to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burbling — the bubbling or gurgling sound of water
- burleigh — Burghley
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- by jingo — an exclamation of surprise
- by right — properly; justly
- by sight — by appearance; by recognizing but not through being acquainted
- cabining — Present participle of cabin.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cambogia — gamboge (def 1).
- climbing — Climbing is the activity of climbing rocks or mountains.
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- combings — the loose hair, wool, etc, removed by combing, esp that of animals
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.