8-letter words containing rub
- back rub — a form of massage in which the masseur rubs one's back
- body rub — massage.
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- grub hoe — a heavy hoe for digging up roots, stumps, etc.
- grub saw — a handsaw for cutting stone.
- grubbers — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- grubbier — Comparative form of grubby.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- hey rube — a fight between townspeople and the members of a circus or carnival.
- pub grub — food served in a pub
- rub down — 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.
- rub-down — 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.
- rubaiyat — (in Persian poetry) a verse form consisting of four-line stanzas
- rubbaboo — a soup made from pemmican boiled in water, sometimes thickened with flour
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- ruby-red — of the deep red colour of a ruby
- 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
- scrub up — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrub-up — an act or instance of scrubbing.
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- scrubber — a prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- subshrub — a plant consisting of a woody, perennial base with annual, herbaceous shoots.
- unrubbed — not rubbed
- urubamba — a river rising in SE Peru, flowing NW through the Andes Mountains to central Peru to meet the Apurímac River and form the Ucayali River. 450 miles (725 km) long.
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