10-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- regularise — to make regular.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- sac fungus — ascomycete.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- san miguel — a city in E El Salvador.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- sanguinely — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sao miguel — the largest island of the Azores. 150,000. 288 sq. mi. (746 sq. km).
- satya yuga — the first and best of the four Yugas.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spun glass — blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.
- spun sugar — a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.
- squabbling — act of quarrelling
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- square peg — a person or thing that is a misfit, such as an employee in a job for which he or she is unsuited
- squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
- squeteague — an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis, of the croaker family.
- squillagee — squeegee.
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.