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)