9-letter words containing o, r, g
- brown bag — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown-bag — If you brown-bag your lunch or you brown-bag it, you bring your lunch in a bag to work or school.
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- burgeoned — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- burrowing — a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal for habitation and refuge.
- by george — a figure of St. George killing the dragon, especially one forming part of the insignia of the Order of the Garter.
- cagoulard — a member of a secret French organization, active 1932–40, that conspired to overthrow the Third Republic.
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- calor gas — Calor gas is gas in liquid form which is sold in special containers so that people can use it in places which are not connected to the gas supply, such as tents or caravans.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- cargo bay — the large central area of the space shuttle orbiter's fuselage in which payloads and their support equipment are carried. Also called payload bay. Compare bay2 (def 2a).
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- cartogram — a map showing statistical information in diagrammatic form
- cartology — the theory or science of mapmaking
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- 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
- chorology — the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- cigarillo — a small cigar often only slightly larger than a cigarette
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- 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.