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10-letter words containing g, r, b

  • buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
  • budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
  • bug-ridden — full of insects
  • bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
  • bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
  • bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
  • buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
  • bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
  • bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
  • burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
  • burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
  • burger bar — a restaurant selling primarily hamburgers and similar dishes
  • burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
  • burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
  • burlingameAnson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
  • burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
  • burst page — banner
  • bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
  • bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
  • by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
  • by george! — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
  • cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
  • canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • carpetbags — Plural form of carpetbag.
  • chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
  • chargeable — If something is chargeable, you have to pay a sum of money for it.
  • chargeback — the return of funds by a seller to a buyer's debit or credit card account
  • clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
  • clarksburg — a city in N West Virginia, on the Monongahela River.
  • clergiable — (of a criminal charge) able to be contested in a clerical rather than a secular court
  • clobbering — Present participle of clobber.
  • club grass — cattail.
  • coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
  • comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
  • corbelling — a set of corbels stepped outwards, one above another
  • coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
  • corrigible — capable of being corrected
  • counterbug — (humour)   A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
  • crab grass — any of several coarse weedy grasses of the genus Digitaria, which grow in warm regions and tend to displace other grasses in lawns
  • cribbiting — to practice cribbing.
  • croton bug — a small, winged cockroach (Blattella germanica); German cockroach
  • crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
  • cyberglove — (hardware, virtual reality)   A data glove sold by Virtual Technologies. The spandex-like glove houses 18 sensors to track accurately just about every move your hand is capable of making. The accompanying software includes a three-dimensional hand model that can he added to any virtual reality application. The glove includes a mount for Polhemus and Ascension sensors.
  • cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
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