9-letter words containing g, r, b
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
- bluegrass — Bluegrass is a style of fast folk music that began in the Southern United States.
- boanerges — a nickname applied by Jesus to James and John in Mark 3:17
- bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bogo-sort — (algorithm, humour) /boh"goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Compare brute force, Lasherism.
- bogometer — (humour) /boh-gom'-*t-er/ A notional instrument for measuring bogosity. Compare the "wankometer" described in the wank entry.
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- boogerman — South Midland and Southern U.S. bogeyman.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- borrowing — Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money.
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- boulanger — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1837–91, French general and minister of war (1886–87). Accused of attempting a coup d'état, he fled to Belgium, where he committed suicide
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bourgogne — Burgundy2
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- brabbling — to argue stubbornly about trifles; wrangle.
- bracingly — strengthening; invigorating: This mountain air is bracing.
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brambling — a Eurasian finch, Fringilla montifringilla, with a speckled head and back and, in the male, a reddish brown breast and darker wings and tail
- branching — the occurrence of several decay paths (branches) in the disintegration of a particular nuclide or the de-excitation of an excited atom. The branching fraction (nuclear) or branching ratio (atomic) is the proportion of the disintegrating nuclei that follow a particular branch to the total number of disintegrating nuclides
- brandling — a small red earthworm, Eisenia foetida (or Helodrilus foetidus), found in manure and used as bait by anglers
- brannigan — a noisy quarrel
- breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridgeman — a person who works on a bridge or on the construction of bridges.
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brigadier — A brigadier is a senior officer who is in charge of a brigade in the British armed forces.
- brigading — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brightish — fairly bright
- bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bringdown — a disappointment
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- brittling — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.