11-letter words containing b, u, g, e
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- bulkheading — the construction of bulkheads; bulkheads in general.
- bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
- bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
- bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- bungee jump — a jump made by someone from a high bridge, building, etc, secured only by a rubber cord attached to the ankles
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- cabbage bug — harlequin bug
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- chamber mug — a chamber pot.
- chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- disguisable — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dung beetle — any of various scarab beetles that feed on or breed in dung.
- encumbering — Present participle of encumber.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- fussbudgets — Plural form of fussbudget.
- fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
- gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- gauge boson — a boson that mediates the interaction between elementary particles. There are several types: photons for electromagnetic interactions, W and Z intermediate vector bosons for weak interactions, and gravitons for gravitational interactions
- geiger tube — a tube functioning as an ionization chamber within a Geiger counter.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- gibbousness — The quality of being gibbous.
- glen burnie — a city in E central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
- golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef