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9-letter words containing b, a, g, u

  • butlerage — a butler's position or rank
  • calabogus — a mixed drink containing rum, spruce beer, and molasses
  • cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
  • daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
  • douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
  • drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
  • dumb ague — an irregular form of intermittent malarial fever, lacking the usual chill.
  • figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
  • gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
  • galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
  • gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
  • gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
  • gaugeable — Capable of being gauged.
  • get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • glabellum — glabella.
  • gluggable — (of wine) easy and pleasant to drink
  • grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
  • groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
  • grub beam — a curved, laminated wooden beam forming part of a rounded stern.
  • grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
  • guanabana — soursop.
  • guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
  • gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
  • gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
  • hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
  • hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
  • judgeable — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
  • keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
  • khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
  • kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
  • labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
  • lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
  • laughable — such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
  • laughably — In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
  • lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
  • lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
  • magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
  • mandelbug — (jargon, programming)   /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
  • māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
  • mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
  • megabucks — one million dollars.
  • mummy bag — a snug-fitting sleeping bag tapered from the shoulders to the feet, enclosing both the body and head except for a small opening for the face.
  • mung bean — small green legume
  • nunny bag — a small sealskin haversack, used chiefly in Newfoundland
  • objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
  • outgamble — to defeat at gambling
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