9-letter words containing o, r, g, i
- bjoerling — Jussi [yoo s-ee] /ˈyʊs i/ (Show IPA), 1911–60, Swedish tenor.
- bordering — the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borgesian — of Jorge Luis Borges or his works
- borrowing — Borrowing is the activity of borrowing money.
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
- bourguiba — Habib ben Ali (hæˈbɪb bɛn ˈɑːlɪ). 1903–2000, Tunisian statesman: president of Tunisia (1957–87); a moderate and an advocate of gradual social change. He was deposed in a coup and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bringdown — a disappointment
- brokering — the work of a broker or brokerage
- brookings — Robert Somers [suhm-erz] /ˈsʌm ərz/ (Show IPA), 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chirology — Palm reading.
- choirgirl — a girl who sings in a church choir
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- coffering — a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
- cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- coleridge — Samuel Taylor. 1772–1834, English Romantic poet and critic, noted for poems such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kubla Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816), and for his critical work Biographia Literaria (1817)
- collaring — Present participle of collar.
- colorings — Plural form of coloring.
- colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- compering — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- concierge — (Britain) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- congeries — a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap
- congruity — the condition or fact of being congruous or congruent
- conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws
- consigner — a person or company that consigns goods, merchandise, etc.
- consignor — a person, enterprise, etc, that consigns goods