8-letter words containing i, r, g
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- avigator — aerial navigation.
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- babygirl — (slang, mostly, AAVE) Friendly or intimate term of address for a woman.
- bagpiper — a person who plays the bagpipes
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- bar girl — an attractive girl employed by the management of a bar to befriend male customers and encourage them to buy drinks
- bar-girl — a barmaid.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- baregine — a whitish, mucilaginous substance found in the thermal waters of Barèges in France, considered to have healing properties
- bargains — Plural form of bargain.
- barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
- barkings — Plural form of barking.
- barrings — Plural form of barring.
- bat girl — a girl or young woman who takes care of the bats and sometimes other equipment of a team.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearings — a sense of one's relative position or situation; orientation (esp in the phrases lose, get, or take one's bearings)
- bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
- befinger — to finger all over
- befringe — to decorate with a fringe
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- begirdle — to surround with a girdle
- begrimed — dirty
- beguiler — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- berating — to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
- bergenia — an evergreen ground-covering plant
- bergerie — a farm, country estate, or other rural retreat maintained by a wealthy owner as a facility for rest and recreation.
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- beringia — the former land bridge between Siberia & Alas., over which Asian animals and peoples migrated into North America
- berrigan — an Australian tree, Pittosporum phylliraeoides, with hanging branches
- berthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- besieger — to lay siege to.
- 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.