9-letter words containing b, u, g, s
- scrubbing — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- 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.
- smogbound — surrounded by smog.
- stilt bug — any of various slender, long-legged, brownish bugs of the family Berytidae, inhabiting dense vegetation: sometimes classified with the leaf-footed bugs.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- 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.
- subsiding — to sink to a low or lower level.
- subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
- sugar bag — a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sun grebe — finfoot.
- sun-grebe — any of a gruiform family (Heliornithidae) of shy, long-necked tropical birds living along streams, lakes, etc.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- venusberg — a mountain in central Germany in the caverns of which, according to medieval legend, Venus held court.
- vicksburg — a city in W Mississippi, on the Mississippi River: important Civil War siege and Confederate surrender 1863.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.