9-letter words containing g, s
- biestings — beestings
- big beast — an important or powerful person
- big bucks — If someone earns or spends big bucks, they earn or spend a lot of money.
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big noise — Someone who is a big noise has an important position in a group or organization.
- big skate — See under skate2 .
- big stick — force or the threat of using force
- big style — to a great degree or extent
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- biologics — biological products such as vaccines and therapeutic sera, used to induce immunity to infectious diseases or harmful substances of biological origin
- biologies — the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially with reference to origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior.
- biologism — the explanation of human behaviour through biology
- biologist — a specialist in biology.
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- blood gas — a gas, as oxygen or carbon dioxide, that is dissolved in plasma.
- 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
- bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
- 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.
- bogorodsk — former name of Noginsk.
- bojangles — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- bolognese — of or relating to Bologna or its inhabitants
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- boomslang — a large greenish venomous arboreal colubrid snake, Dispholidus typus, of southern Africa
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- 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.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- breakages — things broken, usually accidentally
- 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.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brightish — fairly bright
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- burgesses — Anthony, 1917–93, English novelist and critic.
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- by design — If something happens or is done by design, someone does it deliberately, rather than by accident.
- 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.
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
- cagelings — Plural form of cageling.
- cageyness — the quality of being cagey
- calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
- call sign — A call sign is the letters and numbers which identify a person, vehicle, or organization that is broadcasting on the radio or sending messages by radio.
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.