9-letter words containing a, g, u, c
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- lucky bag — a bag of mixed sweets, intended for children; the bag is transparent, so that you do not know exactly what it contains
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- mummachog — Alternative form of mummichog.
- mutagenic — capable of inducing mutation or increasing its rate.
- naugatuck — a city in central Connecticut.
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.
- nicaragua — a republic in Central America. 57,143 sq. mi. (148,000 sq. km). Capital: Managua.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- surcharge — an additional charge, tax, or cost.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- sylacauga — a city in central Alabama.
- tag cloud — a visual representation of user-generated electronic tags or keywords that classify and describe online content, typically an alphabetical list or a grouping of words in different font sizes, as to show relative frequency or provide links to further information: a tag cloud of the words used in the president's speech. See also tag1 (def 9b).
- unceasing — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
- unchanged — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
- uncharged — not charged, especially with electricity; electrically neutral: an uncharged battery; an uncharged particle.
- uncoating — a process whereby the genome of a virus is exposed in order for the virus to replicate
- uncongeal — to make liquid
- undecagon — a polygon having 11 angles and 11 sides.
- unlogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- unorganic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- unpacking — removal of items from suitcase, etc.
- unquachog — a member of an American Indian people of eastern Long Island, New York.
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- vacuuming — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.