9-letter words containing i, r, g
- astringer — a styptic or constrictive substance
- astroglia — The group of star-shaped glial cells in the brain and spinal cord.
- asynergia — lack of coordination between muscles or parts, as occurs in cerebellar disease
- attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
- au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
- aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
- audiogram — a graphic record of the acuity of hearing of a person obtained by means of an audiometer
- auger bit — an auger having a square tang at its upper end and rotated by a brace, used for boring through wood.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- baby girl — a female baby
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- baignoire — a theatre box on the lowest level
- balk ring — A balk ring is a rotating part of a gearbox that prevents the gears from engaging too early.
- ball girl — In a tennis match, the ball girls pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball girls are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
- banbridge — a district in S Northern Ireland, in Co Down. Pop: 43 083 (2003 est). Area: 442 sq km (170 sq miles)
- bank giro — a British giro system operated by clearing banks to enable customers to pay sums of money to others by credit transfer
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baragouin — incomprehensible language; gibberish
- barasinga — a species of deer, Cervus duvaucelii, native to India and Nepal, known for the many-pointed nature of its antlers
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- bargained — Simple past tense and past participle of bargain.
- bargainer — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- belgravia — a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bereaving — to deprive and make desolate, especially by death (usually followed by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.
- berg wind — a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
- bergy bit — a small iceberg, somewhat larger than a growler.
- besiegers — to lay siege to.
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- beveridge — William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge. 1879–1963, British economist, whose Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942) formed the basis of social-security legislation in Britain
- biangular — having two angles or corners.
- bickering — to engage in petulant or peevish argument; wrangle: The two were always bickering.
- big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
- big labor — large labor unions collectively.
- big-timer — Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- bigarreau — any of several heart-shaped varieties of sweet cherry that have firm flesh
- bigeneric — (of a hybrid plant) derived from parents of two different genera
- bigorexia — muscle dysmorphia.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.