8-Letter Words Containing: BUG

• scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees

• Any of several insects, usually shield-shaped, possessing a gland that produces a foul-smelling liquid, usually containing aldehydes which they use to discourage predators.

• A common name applied to various insects of the Hemiptera order (the "true bugs"), in the Heteroptera suborder, principally in the superfamilies Pentatomoidea and Coreoidea.

• (US Southwest) A pinacate beetle or stink beetle (genus Eleodes) that releases a pungent odor when threatened.

• small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests

• A flea-infested hotel, lodging-house etc.

• A prison.

• A hospital, especially a lunatic asylum.

• A cheap and dirty cinema.

• Crazy, insane.

• locate and correct errors in a computer program code

• a criminal who illegally sets fire to property

• a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain

• a strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics

• a strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias