9-letter words containing b, u, r, g
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- neuenburg — Neuchâtel
- numbering — a numeral or group of numerals.
- nuremberg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- river bug — a small inflatable single-seat craft that resembles an armchair
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubbering — Also called India rubber, natural rubber, gum, gum elastic, caoutchouc. a highly elastic solid substance, light cream or dark amber in color, polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants, especially Hevea and Ficus species.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- 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.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- 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.
- 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
- troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- unbarring — to remove a bar or bars from; open; unlock; unbolt: to unbar a door.
- unbearing — the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures: a man of dignified bearing.
- unbridged — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- ungarbled — to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
- upburning — burning upwards
- 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.
- water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.
- zeebrugge — a seaport in NW Belgium: part of the city of Bruges; German submarine base in World War I.