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11-letter words containing o, r, g, i

  • bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
  • boxing ring — A boxing ring is a raised square platform with ropes around it in which boxers fight.
  • braggadocio — vain empty boasting
  • bridal gown — a wedding dress
  • bridge loan — A bridge loan is money that a bank lends you for a short time, for example, so that you can buy a new house before you have sold the one you already own.
  • bridge roll — a soft bread roll in a long thin shape
  • bridgeboard — a board on both sides of a staircase that is cut to support the treads and risers
  • bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
  • bright wool — the wool of sheep raised east of the Mississippi River.
  • bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
  • bring along — If you bring someone or something along, you bring them with you when you come to a place.
  • bring forth — to give birth to
  • bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
  • brobdingnag — in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a land inhabited by giants about 60 feet tall
  • browbeating — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
  • brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
  • buon giorno — good day; hello
  • burglarious — of, constituting, or inclined to burglary
  • burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
  • cacogastric — relating to an upset stomach
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
  • carbonating — Present participle of carbonate.
  • carbonizing — Present participle of carbonize.
  • carcinogens — Plural form of carcinogen.
  • carcinology — the study of crustaceans
  • cardiogenic — originating in the heart, or resulting from a disorder of the heart
  • cardiograms — Plural form of cardiogram.
  • cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
  • cargo liner — a cargo ship that sails regularly between designated ports according to a published schedule.
  • carloadings — the number of railroad carloads shipped in or out within a given period
  • carolingian — of or relating to the Frankish dynasty founded by Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel, which ruled in France from 751–987 ad and in Germany until 911 ad
  • carousingly — in a carousing manner
  • carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
  • carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
  • castigatory — to criticize or reprimand severely.
  • casting rod — a fishing rod, generally 4–8 feet (1.2–2.4 meters) long, for casting bait or lures with a reel mounted near the handle that enables the thumb or finger to control the line during a cast, including rods used for bait casting and spinning.
  • categorical — If you are categorical about something, you state your views very definitely and firmly.
  • categorised — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorized — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • categorizes — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
  • centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
  • cereologist — Someone who studies crop circles, especially one who believes that they are not man-made or formed by other terrestrial processes.
  • cga monitor — a type of (early) computer monitor designed to operate with CGA technology
  • cgi program — Common Gateway Interface
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chirography — handwriting; penmanship
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