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10-letter words containing g, r, b

  • barrelling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
  • barrington — Jonah. born 1940, British squash player; winner of the Open Championship 1966–67, 1969–72
  • bartending — to serve or work as a bartender.
  • battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
  • batterings — Plural form of battering.
  • baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
  • beachgoers — Plural form of beachgoer.
  • bear grass — Also called elk grass. a tall, western North American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, of the lily family, having narrow leaves and a dense, broad cluster of tiny white flowers.
  • beauregard — P(ierre) G(ustave) T(outant) de1818-93; Confederate general
  • bedraggled — Someone or something that is bedraggled looks untidy because they have got wet or dirty.
  • bedsprings — Plural form of bedspring.
  • beefburger — A beefburger is the same as a hamburger.
  • beer glass — a glass of a standard size (in Britain holding one pint, or half a pint) with straight sides, or with a handle, to drink beer from
  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
  • beggarweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, esp D. purpureum of the Caribbean, grown in the southern US as forage plants and to improve the soil
  • begrudgery — resentment of any person who has achieved success or wealth
  • begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
  • bellhanger — a person who mounts bells
  • belly girt — girth (def 2).
  • ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
  • bent grass — any grass of the genus Agrostis, especially the redtop.
  • bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
  • bergamasko — an inhabitant of Bergamo
  • bergsonism — the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order
  • bering sea — a part of the N Pacific Ocean, between NE Siberia and Alaska. Area: about 2 275 000 sq km (878 000 sq miles)
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • bevel gear — a gear having teeth cut into a conical surface known as the pitch zone. Two such gears mesh together to transmit power between two shafts at an angle to each other
  • bice green — a medium to bright yellow-green color.
  • big bertha — any of three large German guns of World War I used to bombard Paris
  • big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
  • big hitter — A big hitter is a sportsperson such as a golfer or tennis player who hits the ball with a lot of force.
  • big laurel — the rhododendron.
  • big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
  • big screen — When people talk about the big screen, they are referring to films that are made for cinema rather than for television.
  • big sister — an elder sister.
  • big spring — a city in W Texas.
  • bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
  • bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
  • billbergia — any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.
  • bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
  • biodegrade — to decompose (something)
  • biographee — a person whose biography has been written
  • biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
  • biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
  • bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
  • biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
  • biratnagar — a city in SE Nepal.
  • bird grass — rough bluegrass
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