10-letter words containing g, r
- bromsgrove — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire. Pop: 29 237 (2001)
- bronze age — The Bronze Age was a period of time which began when people started making things from bronze about 4,000–6,000 years ago.
- broodingly — preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts: a brooding frame of mind.
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brown alga — an alga of the class Phaeophyceae, usually brown owing to the presence of brown pigments in addition to the chlorophyll.
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- brugmansia — any of various solanaceous plants of the genus Brugmansia, native to tropical American regions and closely related to daturas, having sweetly scented flowers
- bubs grade — a baby
- buckraking — the practice of accepting large sums of money for speaking to special interest groups.
- budgerigar — Budgerigars are small, brightly-coloured birds from Australia that people often keep as pets.
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- bug-ridden — full of insects
- bugger all — Bugger all is a rude way of saying 'nothing'.
- bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bunny girl — a night-club hostess whose costume includes a rabbit-like tail and ears
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burger bar — a restaurant selling primarily hamburgers and similar dishes
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burgundian — of or relating to Burgundy or its inhabitants
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burst page — banner
- bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- by degrees — If something happens by degrees, it happens slowly and gradually.
- by george! — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- cane grass — any of several tall perennial hard-stemmed grasses, esp Eragrostis australasica, of inland swamps
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.
- caravaggio — Michelangelo Merisi da (mikeˈlandʒelo meˈriːzi da). 1571–1610, Italian painter, noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro