8-letter words containing b, u, g, l
- lüneburg — a city in N Germany, in Lower Saxony: capital of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1235 to 1369; prominent Hanse town; saline springs. Pop: 70 614 (2003 est)
- 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.
- 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.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- nebelung — a breed of cat with a long body, long silky bluish hair, and a plumelike tail
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- walburga — Walpurgis.