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10-letter words containing g, u, r

  • beefburger — A beefburger is the same as a hamburger.
  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • begrudgery — resentment of any person who has achieved success or wealth
  • begrudging — to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): She begrudged her friend the award.
  • ben-gurion — David, original name David Gruen. 1886–1973, Israeli socialist statesman, born in Poland; first prime minister of Israel (1948–53, 1955–63)
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • big laurel — the rhododendron.
  • bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
  • biosurgery — the use of live sterile maggots to treat patients with infected wounds
  • blackguard — an unprincipled contemptible person; scoundrel
  • blacksburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • bloomsburg — a city in E central Pennsylvania.
  • blubbering — Zoology. the fat layer between the skin and muscle of whales and other cetaceans, from which oil is made.
  • blue grama — any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
  • blue ridge — a mountain range extending SW from N Virginia to N Georgia: part of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • blue-green — a color about midway between blue and green in the spectrum.
  • blundering — a gross, stupid, or careless mistake: That's your second blunder this morning.
  • blurringly — in a manner which causes blurring
  • bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • bongo drum — small hand drum
  • book group — A book group is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss books that they have read.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
  • bouldering — rock climbing on large boulders or small outcrops either as practice or as a sport in its own right
  • bourgeoise — a female bourgeois
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • bren (gun) — a light, fast, gas-operated machine gun used by the British army in WWII
  • bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
  • 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 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)
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