8-letter words containing g, o, b
- big shot — A big shot is an important and powerful person in a group or organization.
- big-note — to boast about (oneself)
- big-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
- bigamous — A bigamous marriage is one in which one of the partners is already legally married to someone else.
- bigmouth — a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
- bignonia — any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers
- biogenic — produced or originating from a living organism
- biograph — a biographical summary
- biologic — pertaining to biology.
- bird dog — a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot
- bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- bloating — Bloating is the swelling of a body or part of a body, usually because it has a lot of gas or liquid in it.
- blockage — A blockage in a pipe, tube, or tunnel is an object which blocks it, or the state of being blocked.
- blocking — the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
- blogging — a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
- blogroll — a list of blogs
- blonding — the act or an instance of dyeing hair blonde
- blooding — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
- bloombug — (humour) A bug that accidentally generates money.
- blooming — Blooming is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are annoyed.
- blotting — a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- blousing — a usually lightweight, loose-fitting garment for women and children, covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, with or without a collar and sleeves, worn inside or outside a skirt, slacks, etc.
- blow-gun — a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
- bludgeon — To bludgeon someone means to hit them several times with a heavy object.
- bluegown — a bedesman of the king or, in Scotland, a licensed beggar, who traditionally wore a blue gown
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- boat bug — water boatman.
- bodingly — in a boding manner
- body bag — A body bag is a specially designed large plastic bag which is used to carry a dead body away, for example when someone has been killed in a battle or an accident.
- bog deal — pine wood found preserved in peat bogs
- bog down — If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bog roll — a toilet roll; toilet paper
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogalusa — a city in SE Louisiana.
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- boğazköy — a village in central Asia Minor: site of the ancient Hittite capital
- bogeyism — the recognition of or belief in the existence of ghosts or demons
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- bogotify — (jargon) /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
- bohr bug — (jargon, programming) /bohr buhg/ (From Quantum physics) A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Compare heisenbug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- boltings — (of flour) the coarse particles separated by sifting