10-letter words containing b, o, r, g
- gold braid — a gold-coloured braid which is used to decorate uniforms
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldberger — Joseph, 1874–1929, U.S. physician, born in Austria: discovered the cause of and treatment for pellagra.
- gooneybird — an informal name for the albatross, esp the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes)
- gooseberry — the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, especially R. uva-crispa (or R. grossularia).
- gorbellied — a protruding belly.
- gorse bush — a gorse plant
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- gravy boat — a small dish, often boat-shaped, for serving gravy or sauce.
- green book — 1.
Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2. (publication) Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles. - greenboard — a green chalkboard or blackboard.
- greensboro — a city in N North Carolina.
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- gubernator — a governor
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- habergeons — Plural form of habergeon.
- harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- high board — a diving board three meters above the water.
- highbrowed — (of a person) highbrow; intellectual and cultured.
- hog badger — a SE Asian badger, Arctonyx collaris, with a piglike mobile snout
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- imageboard — A type of Internet forum that revolves around the posting of images with minimal associated text.
- imbroglios — Plural form of imbroglio.
- indigobird — Any of various African passerine birds of the family Viduidae.
- kabaragoya — The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
- king cobra — a cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, that grows to a length of more than 15 feet (5 meters): the largest of the venomous snakes.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- negri body — any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.
- negrophobe — a person who strongly fears or dislikes black people.