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10-letter words containing g, r, b

  • gothenburg — Göteborg.
  • governable — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
  • grabbiness — The quality of being grabby; acquisitive greed.
  • grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
  • graubunden — German name of Grisons.
  • gravy boat — a small dish, often boat-shaped, for serving gravy or sauce.
  • gray birch — a small, bushy birch, Betula populifolia, of stony or sandy areas of the eastern U.S., having grayish-white bark and triangular leaves.
  • graybeards — Plural form of graybeard.
  • greaseball — Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Mediterranean or Latin American descent.
  • greaseband — a band of greasy or sticky material wrapped around a tree trunk in order to prevent insects from ascending the tree
  • great bear — the constellation Ursa Major.
  • great belt — a strait in Denmark, between Zealand and Funen islands, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic
  • great bend — a city in central Kansas.
  • green bass — largemouth bass.
  • green bean — the immature green pod of the kidney bean, eaten as a vegetable.
  • green belt — an area of woods, parks, or open land surrounding a community.
  • green book — 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript. The other three official guides are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book. 2.   (publication)   Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red books. 3. The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard Unix environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See Purple Book. 4. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book". 5. Any of the 1992 standards issued by the ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. 6. Green Book CD-ROM. See also book titles.
  • green crab — a yellowish-green crab, Carcinides maenas, common in shallow waters along rocky shores.
  • greenbacks — Plural form of greenback.
  • greenbelts — Plural form of greenbelt.
  • greenboard — a green chalkboard or blackboard.
  • greenbrier — catbrier.
  • greensboro — a city in N North Carolina.
  • greensburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
  • groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
  • groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
  • grub screw — headless metal bolt
  • grubbiness — dirty; slovenly: children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
  • grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
  • grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
  • grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
  • grubstreet — produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.
  • grumblings — Plural form of grumbling.
  • guard band — an unassigned range of radio frequencies either just above or just below the band of frequencies required for the signal transmitted by a broadcasting station. It helps to prevent interference in receivers between signals from different stations.
  • gubernator — a governor
  • guest beer — a draught beer stocked by a bar, often for a limited period, in addition to its usual range
  • guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
  • gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
  • gun barrel — firearm: tube-shaped part
  • habergeons — Plural form of habergeon.
  • hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
  • harbingers — Plural form of harbinger.
  • harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
  • harbouring — 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.
  • hardenberg — Novalis.
  • harrisburg — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
  • haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
  • headbanger — metalhead.
  • heidelberg — a city in NW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany: university, founded 1386.
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