9-letter words containing g, e, t, b
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- ignitable — to set on fire; kindle.
- ignitible — Capable of being ignited.
- jitterbug — a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augmented by twirls, splits, somersaults, etc., popular especially in the early 1940s and performed chiefly to boogie-woogie and swing.
- let sb go — If you let someone or something go, you allow them to leave or escape.
- litigable — subject to litigation; actionable by a lawsuit.
- litterbag — a small paper or plastic bag for trash or rubbish, as one carried in an automobile.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- mitigable — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- nightrobe — A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
- objecting — anything that is visible or tangible and is relatively stable in form.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obligatee — (government) A person who is obligated by law to do something.
- obligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obligate.
- obtesting — Present participle of obtest.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- rabbeting — a deep notch formed in or near one edge of a board, framing timber, etc., so that something else can be fitted into it or so that a door or the like can be closed against it.
- rattlebag — a rattle made out of a bag containing small objects
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- stageable — (of a play, musical, etc) capable of or suitable for being staged
- steinberg — Saul, 1914–1999, U.S. painter, cartoonist, and illustrator; born in Romania.
- sternberg — George Miller, 1838–1915, U.S. bacteriologist and medical researcher.
- strasberg — Lee, 1901–82, U.S. theatrical director, teacher, and actor, born in Austria.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- swingbeat — a type of modern dance music that combines soul, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop
- table leg — one of the legs forming part of a table and on which it rests
- tableting — Tableting is the production of a disk-shaped solid by compaction or agglomeration of a powder.
- teabagger — Slang. a person who tea-bags a sexual partner.
- the bight — the major indentation of the S coast of Australia, from Cape Pasley in W Australia to the Eyre Peninsula in S Australia
- the gabba — the Queensland Cricket Association ground at Woolloongabba, Brisbane
- the globe — the world; the earth
- thighbone — femur (def 1).
- timbering — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
- tinbergen — Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1903–94, Dutch economist: Nobel prize 1969.
- tombigbee — a river flowing S through NE Mississippi and SW Alabama to the Mobile River. 525 miles (845 km) long.
- tonbridge — a market town in SE England, in SW Kent on the River Medway. Pop: 35 833 (2001)
- trembling — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.
- tumblebug — any of several dung beetles that roll balls of dung in which they deposit their eggs and in which the young develop.
- unbigoted — utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
- vegetable — any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
- vegetably — like or in the manner of a vegetable.
- water bag — a bag, sometimes made of skin, leather, etc, but in Australia usually canvas, for holding, carrying, and keeping water cool
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- wingbeats — Plural form of wingbeat.
- zeitgeber — an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock.