9-letter words containing g, r, b
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barrelage — an amount, esp of beer, as measured in barrels
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- bavardage — idle chattering
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beargrass — a North-West American plant, Xerophyllum tenax, belonging to the lily family but resembling tall grass
- bedraggle — to make (hair, clothing, etc) limp, untidy, or dirty, as with rain or mud
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beer pong — a drinking game in which players attempt to throw Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer, which must then be drunk by their opponents
- beggardom — beggary (def 2).
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beglamour — to endow with glamour
- beglerbeg — a provincial governor in the Ottoman empire
- begrudged — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- begrudger — a dissatisfied person
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bell frog — any of several tree frogs having a bell-like call.
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- besiegers — to lay siege to.
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- big-timer — Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioenergy — the renewable energy derived from biological sources
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bioregion — a natural ecological community in which the biodiversity and ecosystem are distinct
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird