8-letter words containing g, u, b
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- jedburgh — a border town in the Borders region, in SE Scotland: ruins of an abbey.
- 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.
- lace bug — any of several bugs of the family Tingidae, characterized by a lacy pattern of ridges on the head, thorax, and wings, and feeding on the leaves of oak, birch, sycamore, etc.
- ladybugs — Plural form of ladybug.
- lebesgue — Henri Léon [ahn-ree ley-awn] /ɑ̃ˈri leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1875–1941, French mathematician.
- leesburg — a city in central Florida.
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- luggable — (esp of computers) portable, but with difficulty
- 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.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- mumbling — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- 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.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- 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.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- plumbago — graphite.
- 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.
- pub grub — food served in a pub
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- roseburg — a city in W Oregon.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubygate — an Italian political scandal in which Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer and of abusing his office
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- runeberg — Johan Ludvig 1804–77, Finnish poet, who wrote in Swedish. His works include the epic King Fialar (1844) and patriotic poems including the Finnish national anthem
- rutabaga — a brassicaceous plant, Brassica napobrassica, having a yellow- or white-fleshed, edible tuber.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- snubbing — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.