9-letter words containing b, g, s
- biestings — beestings
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big noise — Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big stick — force or the threat of using force
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- biologics — biological products such as vaccines and therapeutic sera, used to induce immunity to infectious diseases or harmful substances of biological origin
- biologies — the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior.
- biologism — the explanation of human behaviour through biology
- biologist — a specialist in biology.
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- 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
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- bogo-sort — (algorithm, humour) /boh"goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Compare brute force, Lasherism.
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- 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.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brightish — fairly bright
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- crabgrass — an annual grass, Digitaria sanguinalis, common in cultivated and waste grounds and often occurring as a pest weed in lawns.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- disabling — Present participle of disable.
- disoblige — to refuse or neglect to oblige; act contrary to the desire or convenience of; fail to accommodate.
- disrobing — Present participle of disrobe.