Words that rhyme with burg

• berg 0
  n 1: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier [syn: iceberg, berg] 2: Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935) [syn: Berg, Alban Berg]
• erg 0
  n 1: a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter
• homburg 0
  n 1: a hat made of felt with a creased crown [syn: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby]
• iceberg 0
  n 1: a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier [syn: iceberg, berg] 2: lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" [syn: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce, iceberg]
• strasbourg 0
  n 1: city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border; an inland port [syn: Strasbourg, Strassburg]
• luxembourg 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Luxembourg [syn: Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxembourg City, capital of Luxembourg] 2: a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center [syn: Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxemburg]
• burgh 0
  n 1: a borough in Scotland
• gutenberg 0
  n 1: German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468) [syn: Gutenberg, Johann Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg]
• brandenburg 0
  n 1: the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701
• gettysburg 0
  n 1: a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery 2: a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union [syn: Gettysburg, Battle of Gettysburg]
• gothenburg 0
  n 1: a port in southwestern Sweden; second largest city in Sweden [syn: Goteborg, Goeteborg, Gothenburg]
• harrisburg 0
  n 1: capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state [syn: Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania]
• hattiesburg 0
  n 1: a town in southeast Mississippi
• heisenberg 0
  n 1: German mathematical physicist noted for stating the uncertainty principle (1901-1976) [syn: Heisenberg, Werner Karl Heisenberg]
• hindenburg 0
  n 1: German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934) [syn: Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg]
• luxemburg 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Luxembourg [syn: Luxembourg-Ville, Luxembourg, Luxemburg, Luxembourg City, capital of Luxembourg] 2: a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center [syn: Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Luxemburg]
• nuremberg 0
  n 1: a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46) [syn: Nuremberg, Nurnberg]
• parkersburg 0
  n 1: a city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river
• petersburg 0
  n 1: a town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond); scene of heavy fighting during the American Civil War 2: the final campaign of the American Civil War (1864-65); Union forces under Grant besieged and finally defeated Confederate forces under Lee [syn: Petersburg, Petersburg Campaign]
• johannesburg 0
  n 1: city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries
• blacksburg 0
  n 1: a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains
• bromberg 0
  n 1: an industrial city and river port in northern Poland [syn: Bydgoszcz, Bromberg]
• romberg 0
  n 1: United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951) [syn: Romberg, Sigmund Romberg]
• hamburg 0
  n 1: a port city in northern Germany on the Elbe River that was founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century and is today the largest port in Germany; in 1241 it formed an alliance with Lubeck that became the basis for the Hanseatic League
• sandburg 0
  n 1: United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967) [syn: Sandburg, Carl Sandburg]
• cherbourg 0
  n 1: a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base
• clarksburg 0
  n 1: a city in northern West Virginia
• strasberg 0
  n 1: United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982) [syn: Strasberg, Lee Strasberg, Israel Strassberg]
• strassburg 0
  n 1: city on the Rhine in eastern France near the German border; an inland port [syn: Strasbourg, Strassburg]
• ehrenberg 0
  n 1: Russian novelist (1891-1967) [syn: Ehrenberg, Ilya Ehrenberg, Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenberg]
• ginsberg 0
  n 1: United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997) [syn: Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg]
• goldberg 0
  n 1: United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) [syn: Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg]
• greenberg 0
  n 1: United States linguist who studied the historical relations among 5,000 languages (1916-2001) [syn: Greenberg, Joseph Greenberg]
• habsburg 0
  n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
• hapsburg 0
  n 1: a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806 [syn: Habsburg, Hapsburg]
• pittsburgh 0
  n 1: a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
• weinberg 0
  n 1: United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933) [syn: Weinberg, Steven Weinberg]
• herzberg 0
  n 1: Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904) [syn: Herzberg, Gerhard Herzberg]
• lindbergh 0
  n 1: United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974) [syn: Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy]
• lynchburg 0
  n 1: a city in central Virginia
• newburgh 0
  n 1: a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters
• rydberg 0
  n 1: a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element [syn: rydberg, rydberg constant, rydberg unit]
• salzburg 0
  n 1: city in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of Mozart
• schoenberg 0
  n 1: United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) [syn: Schonberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schoenberg, Arnold Schoenberg]
• schonberg 0
  n 1: United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951) [syn: Schonberg, Arnold Schonberg, Schoenberg, Arnold Schoenberg]
• spielberg 0
  n 1: United States filmmaker (born in 1947) [syn: Spielberg, Steven Spielberg]
• steinberg 0
  n 1: United States cartoonist (born in Romania) noted for his caricatures of famous people (1914-1999) [syn: Steinberg, Saul Steinberg]
• vicksburg 0
  n 1: a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves 2: a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered [syn: Vicksburg, siege of Vicksburg]
• warburg 0
  n 1: German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970) [syn: Warburg, Otto Heinrich Warburg] 2: German art historian (1866-1929) [syn: Warburg, Aby Warburg, Aby Moritz Warburg]
• wurzburg 0
  n 1: a city of south central Germany [syn: Wurzburg, Wuerzburg]
• oldenburg 0
  n 1: United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929) [syn: Oldenburg, Claes Oldenburg, Claes Thure Oldenburg]
• aberg 0
• bergh 0
• burge 0
• ferg 0
• bladensburg 0
• edinburg 0
• guttenberg 0
• heidelberg 0
• martinsburg 0
• mcclurg 0
• middelburg 0
• reynoldsburg 0
• spartanburg 0
• wittenberg 0
• battenberg 0
• catlettsburg 0
• cedarburg 0
• chambersburg 0
• childersburg 0
• drakensberg 0
• ebensburg 0
• ellensburg 0
• emmetsburg 0
• gaithersburg 0
• gibsonburg 0
• gruenberg 0
• harrodsburg 0
• heuneburg 0
• huntingburg 0
• inselberg 0
• johnsonburg 0
• lauenburg 0
• laurinburg 0
• lawrenceburg 0
• lederberg 0
• lewisburg 0
• lichtenberg 0
• louisburg 0
• magdeburg 0
• mecklenburg 0
• muhlenberg 0
• orangeburg 0
• orenburg 0
• osnaburg 0
• perrysburg 0
• philipsburg 0
• phillipsburg 0
• rauschenburg 0
• rosenberg 0

See also burg definition