9-letter words containing b, u, g, e
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- humbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
- jitterbug — a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augmented by twirls, splits, somersaults, etc., popular especially in the early 1940s and performed chiefly to boogie-woogie and swing.
- 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.
- 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.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- 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.
- 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.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- mung bean — small green legume
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- neuenburg — Neuchâtel
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- nuremberg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- rubbering — Also called India rubber, natural rubber, gum, gum elastic, caoutchouc. a highly elastic solid substance, light cream or dark amber in color, polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants, especially Hevea and Ficus species.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- sun grebe — finfoot.
- sun-grebe — any of a gruiform family (Heliornithidae) of shy, long-necked tropical birds living along streams, lakes, etc.
- tumblebug — any of several dung beetles that roll balls of dung in which they deposit their eggs and in which the young develop.
- unbandage — to remove a bandage
- unbearing — the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures: a man of dignified bearing.