9-letter words containing b, u, r, g
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- 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.
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- 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
- febrifuge — serving to dispel or reduce fever, as a medicine.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- 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)
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- germ tube — a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
- glyburide — a hypoglycemic substance, C 23 H 28 ClN 3 O 5 S, used orally in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- grout box — a conical object of expanded metal, buried in poured concrete with an anchor bolt held in its inner and smaller end.
- grub beam — a curved, laminated wooden beam forming part of a rounded stern.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- gruenberg — Louis, 1884–1964, U.S. pianist and composer, born in Russia.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- 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.
- inburning — burning within
- jitterbug — a strenuously acrobatic dance consisting of a few standardized steps augmented by twirls, splits, somersaults, etc., popular especially in the early 1940s and performed chiefly to boogie-woogie and swing.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- 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.
- limburger — a variety of soft white cheese of strong odor and flavor.
- litterbug — a person who litters public places with items of refuse: Litterbugs had thrown beer cans on the picnic grounds.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae