9-letter words containing g, r, u
- bodeguero — a wine-seller or grocer
- bodyguard — A bodyguard is a person or a group of people employed to protect someone.
- 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
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- 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.
- brummagem — something that is cheap and flashy, esp imitation jewellery
- brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
- 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
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- bugger me — Some people say bugger me to emphasize that they are very surprised about something.
- bugger up — If someone buggers something up, they ruin it or spoil it.
- bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
- bull gear — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bull-ring — an arena for a bullfight.
- bundaberg — a town in E Australia, near the E coast of Queensland: centre of a sugar-growing area, with a nearby deep-water port. Pop: 44 556 (2001)
- bunkerage — the act of bunkering a vessel.
- bunkering — a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burrawang — any of several Australian cycads of the genus Macrozamia, having an edible nut
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- 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.
- cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- 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
- congruous — corresponding or agreeing
- conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws