9-letter words containing e, g, u
- begrudged — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- begrudger — a dissatisfied person
- beguiling — Something that is beguiling is charming and attractive.
- beguinage — a convent for members of the Beguine sisterhood
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- biguanide — any of a class of compounds some of which are used in the treatment of certain forms of diabetes
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- bit gauge — a device for stopping a bit when it has reached a desired depth.
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue glue — Systems Network Architecture
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
- bogue out — /bohg owt/ To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but flame afterward." See also bogosity.
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- 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.
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brummagem — something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery
- bubblegum — a type of chewing gum that can be blown into large bubbles through the lips.
- budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
- budgeteer — a person who makes a budget, esp in politics or business
- budgeting — financial planning
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
- bug-juice — an alcoholic beverage, especially of an inferior quality.
- bugger me — Some people say bugger me to emphasize that they are very surprised about something.
- bugger up — If someone buggers something up, they ruin it or spoil it.
- bugleweed — any aromatic plant of the genus Lycopus, having small whitish or pale blue flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- bull gear — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bulleting — a small metal projectile, part of a cartridge, for firing from small arms.
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bunged up — congested
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- cacafuego — a person with a fiery temper
- calcifuge — any plant that thrives in acid soils but not in lime-rich soils
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- change up — When you change up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.