8-letter words containing g, a, b, r
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breakage — Breakage is the act of breaking something.
- breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- bretagne — Brittany2
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigalow — any of various acacia trees
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- brigsail — a large gaffsail on the mainmast or trysail mast of a brig.
- brockage — a defect or fault imposed on a coin during its minting.
- brougham — a four-wheeled horse-drawn closed carriage having a raised open driver's seat in front
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bulgaria — a republic in SE Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula on the Black Sea: under Turkish rule from 1395 until 1878; became an independent kingdom in 1908 and a republic in 1946; joined the EU in 2007; consists chiefly of the Danube valley in the north and the Balkan Mountains in the central part, separated from the Rhodope Mountains of the south by the valley of the Maritsa River. Language: Bulgarian. Religion: Christian (Bulgarian Orthodox) majority. Currency: lev. Capital: Sofia. Pop: 6 981 642 (2013 est). Area: 110 911 sq km (42 823 sq miles)
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- 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.
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).
- garbling — Present participle of garble.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gerberas — Plural form of gerbera.
- gill bar — branchial arch (def 1).
- glabrate — Zoology. glabrous.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.