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