8-letter words containing r, i, b, g
- grubbier — Comparative form of grubby.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- gun brig — a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- highbred — of superior breed.
- highbrow — a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- icebergs — Plural form of iceberg.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
- laboring — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- marbling — metamorphosed limestone, consisting chiefly of recrystallized calcite or dolomite, capable of taking a high polish, occurring in a wide range of colors and variegations and used in sculpture and architecture.
- mr---big — a man having the highest authority, control, prestige, or influence in a group, field, situation, or the like, especially in the underworld.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- obligors — Plural form of obligor.
- orbiting — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
- oxbridge — Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
- rabbling — a tool or mechanically operated device used for stirring or mixing a charge in a roasting furnace.
- rambling — aimlessly wandering.
- re-begin — to begin (something) again
- rebating — a return of part of the original payment for some service or merchandise; partial refund.
- rib cage — the enclosure formed by the ribs and their connecting bones.
- ribgrass — English plantain.
- ringbark — girdle (def 11).
- ringbolt — a bolt with a ring fitted in an eye at its head.
- ringbone — a morbid bony growth on the pastern bones of a horse, often resulting in lameness.
- ringwomb — a complication at lambing resulting from failure of the cervix to open
- robosign — to sign (a document) without reviewing its contents or supporting documents: The bank instructed employees to robosign piles of mortgages.
- roebling — John Augustus, 1806–69, U.S. engineer, born in Germany: pioneer of wire-rope suspension bridges, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- scribing — scriber.
- sobering — not intoxicated or drunk.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- tabering — a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
- therblig — (in time and motion study) any of the basic elements involved in completing a given manual operation or task that can be subjected to analysis.
- trebling — threefold; triple.
- unbright — not bright
- uxbridge — a town in SE England, part of the Greater London borough of Hillingdon since 1965; chiefly residential; seat of Brunel University (1966)
- verbiage — overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
- warbling — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.
- web ring — A web ring is a set of related websites that you can visit one after the other.
- weinberg — Steven. born 1933, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1979) with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for his role in formulating the electroweak theory
- wing bar — a line of contrasting color along the coverts of a bird's wing.