8-letter words containing g, r, b
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- roll bag — a small zippered duffel bag for carrying school supplies, sports gear, or the like.
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- runeberg — Johan Ludvig 1804–77, Finnish poet, who wrote in Swedish. His works include the epic King Fialar (1844) and patriotic poems including the Finnish national anthem
- rutabaga — a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- scribing — scriber.
- shagbark — a hickory, Carya ovata, having shaggy, rough bark and yielding a valuable wood.
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
- submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superbug — a pathogenic bacterium that has developed immunity to antibiotics, or an insect that has developed immunity to insecticides.
- svedberg — The(odor) [tey-oh-dawr] /ˈteɪ oʊˌdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1884–1971, Swedish chemist: Nobel prize 1926.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- tagboard — a strong cardboard suitable for tags or posters.
- thalberg — Irving (Grant) 1899–1936, U.S. motion-picture producer.
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- true bug — bug1 (def 1).
- unbright — not bright
- ungarbed — undressed; unclad
- uxbridge — a town in SE England, part of the Greater London borough of Hillingdon since 1965; chiefly residential; seat of Brunel University (1966)
- vanbrugh — John, 1664–1726, English dramatist and architect.
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- walburga — Walpurgis.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- wartburg — a castle in E Germany, in Thuringia, near Eisenach: Luther translated the New Testament here 1521–22.
- web ring — A web ring is a set of related websites that you can visit one after the other.
- weinberg — Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory
- wing bar — a line of contrasting color along the coverts of a bird's wing.
- workbags — Plural form of workbag.
- wurzburg — a city in NW Bavaria, in S Germany, on the Main River.
- zingiber — a member of the Zingiber genus of 85 species of tropical plants with bright green leaves and yellow-green flowers and of which one species is the ginger plant