8-letter words containing b, o, g, i
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- hobbling — to walk lamely; limp.
- ibogaine — an alkaloid, C 20 H 26 N 2 O, obtained from an African shrub, Tabernanthe iboga, having antidepressant and hallucinogenic properties.
- jigaboos — Plural form of jigaboo.
- kingbolt — a vertical bolt connecting the body of a vehicle with the fore axle, the body of a railroad car with a truck, etc.
- knobbing — Present participle of knob.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- liveblog — a blog containing entries about an event that are written and posted while the event is taking place.
- lobbying — an entrance hall, corridor, or vestibule, as in a public building, often serving as an anteroom; foyer.
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- nobbling — to drug or disable (a race horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- nonbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- obligant — a person who promises or is obliged to pay a sum or carry out a task
- obligate — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligato — Alternative spelling of obbligato.
- obligees — Plural form of obligee.
- obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- snobling — a little snob
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- unboding — not boding or announcing beforehand; not looking to the future
- unbowing — not bowing, complying, or yielding
- wing bow — the distinctively colored feathers on the shoulder or bend of the wing of a bird.
- wobbling — that wobbles or causes to wobble.
- ziggaboo — (ethnic slur, derogatory, African American Vernacular English) A nigger, negro.