8-letter words containing g, r, b
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burgoyne — John. 1722–92, British general in the War of American Independence who was forced to surrender at Saratoga (1777)
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burgundy — Burgundy is used to describe things that are purplish-red in colour.
- burleigh — Burghley
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- by right — properly; justly
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cribbage — a game of cards for two to four, in which players try to win a set number of points before their opponents
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- cybering — Present participle of cyber.
- dagobert — a Merovingian King of the Franks, who lived c.603-639, and made Paris his capital
- debugger — a program that is used to find and correct bugs in other programs
- dirt bag — Slang. a filthy or contemptible person.
- dirtbags — Plural form of dirtbag.
- dogberry — the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- enrobing — Present participle of enrobe.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- fig-bird — any Australian oriole of the genus Sphecotheres, feeding on figs and other fruit
- firbolgs — any member of the pre-Celtic inhabitants of Ireland who were defeated by the Tuatha De Danann.
- firebugs — Plural form of firebug.
- floeberg — a mass of ice floes resembling an iceberg.
- freiburg — a city in SW Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- fribourg — a canton in W Switzerland. 644 sq. mi. (1668 sq. km).
- frog-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- gabblers — Plural form of gabbler.
- gabbroic — Of, pertaining to, or containing gabbro.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gabeller — a person who collected the gabelle; a tax-collector
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- gaborone — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). Capital: Gaborone.
- gabrieli — Andrea [ahn-drey-uh;; Italian ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1510–86, Italian organist and composer.
- gamblers — Plural form of gambler.
- gambrels — Plural form of gambrel.
- gambroon — a type of twilled linen cloth, often used for lining clothes
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- garbages — discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
- garbagey — Like garbage; trashy, worthless.
- garbanzo — chickpea (def 1).