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9-letter words containing g, r, t

  • best girl — one's sweetheart
  • bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
  • 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.
  • binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
  • bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
  • 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.
  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
  • bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
  • bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
  • 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
  • bregmatic — of or relating to the bregma
  • bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
  • brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
  • brightish — fairly bright
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • budgetary — A budgetary matter or policy is concerned with the amount of money that is available to a country or organization, and how it is to be spent.
  • budgeteer — a person who makes a budget, esp in politics or business
  • butlerage — a butler's position or rank
  • buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
  • by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
  • cantering — an easy gallop.
  • capturing — Present participle of capture.
  • caratinga — a city in E Brazil.
  • carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
  • carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
  • cartagena — a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)
  • cartilage — Cartilage is a strong, flexible substance in your body, especially around your joints and in your nose.
  • cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
  • cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
  • cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
  • cartridge — A cartridge is a metal or cardboard tube containing a bullet and an explosive substance. Cartridges are used in guns.
  • castering — a person or thing that casts.
  • cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
  • categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
  • cavorting — to prance or caper about.
  • centering — a temporary frame to support an arch or vault during construction
  • centigram — one hundredth of a gram
  • chartings — Plural form of charting.
  • chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
  • cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
  • ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
  • citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
  • cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
  • congruent — If one thing is congruent with another thing, they are similar or fit together well.
  • congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
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