8-letter words containing g, r
- bergerac — Savinien Cyrano de [sav-in-yen sir-uh-noh duh;; French sa-vee-nyan see-ra-naw duh] /ˌsæv ɪnˈyɛn ˈsɪr əˌnoʊ də;; French sa viˈnyɛ̃ si raˈnɔ də/ (Show IPA), 1619–55, French soldier, swordsman, and writer: hero of play by Rostand.
- bergerie — a farm, country estate, or other rural retreat maintained by a wealthy owner as a facility for rest and recreation.
- bergfall — an avalanche
- bergmehl — a light powdery variety of calcite
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- berouged — wearing rouge
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthage — a place for mooring boats
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- besieger — to lay siege to.
- beverage — Beverages are drinks.
- bewaring — to be wary, cautious, or careful of (usually used imperatively): Beware such inconsistency. Beware his waspish wit.
- big hair — a hairstyle with volume created by hair products or styling techniques such as backcombing, etc
- big iron — (jargon) (Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
- big road — a main road or highway.
- big room — (jargon, humour) The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
- big tree — a giant Californian coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, with a wide tapering trunk and thick spongy bark: family Taxodiaceae. It often reaches a height of 90 metres
- big-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- biograph — a biographical summary
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- bird dog — a dog used or trained to retrieve game birds after they are shot
- bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdsong — Birdsong is the sound of a bird or birds calling in a way which sounds musical.
- birdwing — a type of large, tropical butterfly
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- blagueur — a person who engages in blague
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blogring — a group of blogs joined in a ring
- blogroll — a list of blogs
- blumberg — Baruch Samuel.1925–2011, US physician, noted for work on antigens: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1976
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- bog roll — a toilet roll; toilet paper
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bogarted — to take an unfair share of (something); keep for oneself instead of sharing: Are you gonna bogart that joint all night?
- bohr bug — (jargon, programming) /bohr buhg/ (From Quantum physics) A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Compare heisenbug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- boksburg — city in central Gauteng province, South Africa: pop. 120,000
- bondager — someone who performs bondservice; a bondman
- bongrace — a brim or shade on the front of women's bonnets or hats, intended to protect the face from the sun
- boongary — a tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus lumholtzi, of northeastern Queensland
- borghese — a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century
- borghild — (in the Volsunga Saga) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
- boringly — causing or marked by boredom: a boring discussion; to have a boring time.
- bourgeon — burgeon
- bowgrace — a fender or pad used to protect the bows of a vessel from ice.
- braggart — a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger
- braggers — a person who brags.