9-letter words containing b, u, n, g
- buzzingly — in a buzzing manner
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- debugging — the process of locating and removing faults in computer programs
- debulking — Present participle of debulk.
- debunking — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- egg-bound — describing egg-bearing animals and birds that have difficulty passing their eggs
- ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- gruenberg — Louis, 1884–1964, U.S. pianist and composer, born in Russia.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guanabana — soursop.
- guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- gym bunny — a person who spends a lot of time exercising at a gymnasium
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- inburning — burning within
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lung book — book lung.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- mumblings — Plural form of mumbling.
- mung bean — small green legume
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.