8-letter words containing l, u, g, e
- 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)
- lungeing — Present participle of lunge.
- lungeous — (of a person) violent; rough.
- lungless — Without lungs.
- 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.
- miguelet — miquelet.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- 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.
- nebelung — a breed of cat with a long body, long silky bluish hair, and a plumelike tail
- nibelung — any of a race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure captured by Siegfried.
- ocmulgee — a river in NW Georgia, flowing SE to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- okmulgee — a city in E Oklahoma.
- one-lung — having or equipped with only one lung.
- outbulge — to bulge outwards
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- plugless — having no plug
- plussage — a surplus amount.
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- pucelage — virginity
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- regulize — to separate (ore) into regulus and pure metal
- rejuggle — to juggle anew, to alter
- replough — to plough again
- replunge — the act of replunging
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- ruggedly — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.
- rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- rutledge — Ann, 1816–35, fiancée of Abraham Lincoln.
- sea gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- sea slug — a nudibranch.
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- smuggler — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- splurger — a person who splurges
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squilgee — squeegee.