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11-letter words containing b, u, g

  • 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.
  • gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
  • 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
  • groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
  • grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
  • grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
  • gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
  • gullibility — easily deceived or cheated.
  • gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
  • gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
  • guttae band — regula.
  • 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
  • habituating — Present participle of habituate.
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
  • headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
  • hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
  • home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
  • hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
  • human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
  • humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
  • hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
  • husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
  • job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
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