9-letter words containing g, r, a
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- 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
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brannigan — a noisy quarrel
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brokerage — A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers.
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- brummagem — something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery
- 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.
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bull gear — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- 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)
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut