8-letter words containing b, u, n, g
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- crumbing — Present participle of crumb.
- cumbungi — any of various tall Australian marsh plants of the genus Typha
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- dubbings — Plural form of dubbing.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- flubbing — Present participle of flub.
- fogbound — unable to sail or navigate because of heavy fog.
- fumbling — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
- fungible — (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.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- ginsburg — Ruth Bader [bey-der] /ˈbeɪ dər/ (Show IPA), born 1933, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993.
- ginzburg — Natalia (nataˈliːa). 1916–91, Italian writer and dramatist. Her books include The Road to the City (1942), Voices in the Evening (1961), and Family Sayings (1963)
- globulin — any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
- greenbug — a pale-green aphid, Schizaphis graminum, of North America, destructive of wheat, other small grains, and alfalfa.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- guaynabo — a city in N Puerto Rico, SE of Bayamón.
- gum band — a rubber band.
- gun brig — a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.
- gunboats — a small, armed warship of light draft, used in ports where the water is shallow.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- jug band — a small group of performers who play chiefly blues or folk music on makeshift or very simple instruments, as washboards, harmonicas, kazoos, and empty jugs, the latter being played by blowing across the openings.
- jumbling — Present participle of jumble.
- june bug — Also called May beetle. any of several large, brown beetles of the genus Phyllophaga, of the scarab family, appearing in late spring and early summer.
- lundberg — George A(ndrew) 1895–1966, U.S. sociologist and author.
- 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)
- mangbetu — a member of a people of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- 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
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- nurnberg — German name of Nuremberg.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- 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.