8-letter words containing b, o, r, g
- 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.
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- browning — a substance used to darken soups, gravies, etc
- browsing — to eat, nibble at, or feed on (leaves, tender shoots, or other soft vegetation).
- bryology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of bryophytes
- budgerow — a large slow-moving barge formerly used on the Ganges
- bullfrog — A bullfrog is a type of large frog which makes a very loud noise.
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- dogberry — the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
- enrobing — Present participle of enrobe.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- firbolgs — any member of the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland who were defeated by the Tuatha De Danann.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- fribourg — a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km).
- frog-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- geoprobe — a probing device used for sampling soil
- gisborne — a seaport on E North Island, in N New Zealand.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- go broke — a simple past tense of break.
- gobblers — Plural form of gobbler.
- goldberg — Arthur Joseph, 1908–90, U.S. jurist, statesman, and diplomat: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1962–65; ambassador to the U.N. 1965–68.
- gombroon — a type of Persian pottery ware.
- gorbelly — a protruding belly.
- goteborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, on the Kattegat.
- grenoble — a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- grosbeak — any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.
- grow bag — a plastic bag containing a sufficient amount of a sterile growing medium and nutrients to enable a plant, such as a tomato or pepper, to be grown to full size in it, usually for one season only
- growable — able to be cultivated or grown
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- kornberg — Arthur, 1918–2007, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1959.
- 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)
- logboard — a board used for logging a ship's records
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.