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11-letter words containing b, u, g, l

  • cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
  • chiliburger — a hamburger served with a topping of chili con carne.
  • club fungus — basidiomycete
  • 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.
  • douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
  • douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
  • dung beetle — any of various scarab beetles that feed on or breed in dung.
  • fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • gaberlunzie — a wandering beggar
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • 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.
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
  • gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
  • gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
  • gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
  • keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
  • king's blue — cobalt blue.
  • klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
  • lamb's lugs — a perennial herb, Stachys lanata, planted for its foliage, which is covered with white woolly down; the purplish or striped flowers are small
  • landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
  • laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
  • lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
  • lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
  • marlboroughJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
  • mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • mumbletypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • neuroglobin — (protein) Any of a class of vertebrate globins involved in cellular oxygen homeostasis.
  • nonbuilding — Not being or pertaining to a building.
  • oil-burning — that uses paraffin, esp as a domestic fuel
  • outbuilding — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
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