9-letter words containing g, r, b, i
- grabbling — Present participle of grabble.
- grassbird — a type of warbler found in long grass and reed beds
- grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- high-bred — of superior breed.
- high-carb — having a high carbohydrate content
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbroglio — a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
- inburning — burning within
- inselberg — monadnock (def 1).
- irrigable — capable of being irrigated.
- irrigably — in an irrigable manner
- jabbering — rapid, indistinct, or nonsensical talk; gibberish.
- jibbering — Present participle of jibber.
- 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.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- librating — Present participle of librate.
- limbering — Present participle of limber.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- lingberry — The lingonberry.
- 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.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- microblog — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- nightbird — Alternative spelling of night bird.
- nightrobe — A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
- nirenberg — Marshall Warren, 1927–2010, U.S. biochemist: pioneered studies on the genetic code; Nobel Prize in medicine 1968.
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- obligator — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- observing — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- 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.