9-letter words containing b, g, s
- grabbings — Plural form of grabbing.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- grass box — a container attached to a lawn mower that receives grass after it has been cut
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
- grassbird — a type of warbler found in long grass and reed beds
- graybacks — Plural form of grayback.
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- grosbeaks — Plural form of grosbeak.
- grossbeak — Alternative form of grosbeak.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- guestbook — A book in which visitors to a particular place may write their names, addresses, and remarks.
- gynobasic — an elevation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- imbosking — Present participle of imbosk.
- inselberg — monadnock (def 1).
- jarlsberg — a hard mild-tasting yellow-coloured cheese with holes in it
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kingbolts — Plural form of kingbolt.
- let sb go — If you let someone or something go, you allow them to leave or escape.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lygus bug — any of a genus (Lygus, family Miridae) of hemipterous bugs, including many that damage plants
- mangabeys — Plural form of mangabey.
- megabases — Plural form of megabase.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- noble gas — any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of group 8A or 0 of the periodic table: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon.
- obligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obligate.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observing — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obsessing — to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him.
- obtesting — Present participle of obtest.
- ogbomosho — a city in SW Nigeria.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- saddlebag — a large bag or pouch, usually one of a pair, hung from a saddle, laid over the back of a horse behind the saddle, or mounted over the rear wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sand goby — a species of goby, (Pomatoschistus minutus), that lives in European sandy waters