8-letter words containing b, a, g, u
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- gas tube — an electron tube the envelope of which contains a highly rarefied gas.
- giambeux — Obsolete form of jambeux.
- glabrous — having a surface devoid of hair or pubescence.
- globular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- glueball — a hypothetical object consisting of two or more gluons.
- go about — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- guidable — Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counselled.
- gullable — easily deceived or cheated.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gumballs — Plural form of gumball.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- gustable — Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- jug band — a small group of performers who play chiefly blues or folk music on makeshift or very simple instruments, as washboards, harmonicas, kazoos, and empty jugs, the latter being played by blowing across the openings.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- luggable — (esp of computers) portable, but with difficulty
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- plumbago — graphite.
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rutabaga — a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- toad bug — any of several small broad aquatic insect-eating hemipterous insects of the family Gelastocoridae, having toadlike characteristics.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- unbagged — not bagged or put in a bag
- ungarbed — undressed; unclad
- vanbrugh — John, 1664–1726, English dramatist and architect.