9-letter words containing g, r
- begrudged — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
- begrudger — a dissatisfied person
- beleaguer — to trouble persistently; harass
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- bell frog — any of several tree frogs having a bell-like call.
- bengaluru — a state in S India. 70,051 sq. mi. (191,791 sq. km). Capital: Bengaluru.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bentgrass — any perennial grass of the genus Agrostis, esp A. tenuis, which has a spreading panicle of tiny flowers. Some species are planted for hay or in lawns
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bergamask — person from Bergamo
- bergander — a species of European duck; sheldrake
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- besiegers — to lay siege to.
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhavnagar — a port in W India, in S Gujarat. Pop: 510 958 (2001)
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- 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.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioenergy — the renewable energy derived from biological sources
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bioregion — a natural ecological community in which the biodiversity and ecosystem are distinct
- bird cage — metal enclosure for a bird
- 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).