11-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- quack grass — a couch grass, Agropyron repens, a pernicious weed in cultivated fields.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadrigatus — a silver coin of ancient Rome, bearing an image of Jupiter in a quadriga on the reverse.
- quasi-legal — permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.
- quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- retroussage — the technique or action, in etching or engraving, of drawing up ink from within the incised lines of an inked plate by deftly passing a soft cloth across its surface in order to spread ink to the adjacent areas.
- rogue state — When politicians or journalists talk about a rogue state, they mean a country that they regard as a threat to their own country's security, for example because it supports terrorism.
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rugosa rose — a shrub, Rosa rugosa, having densely bristled stems, wrinkled leaves, and fragrant red or white flowers.
- rusticating — to go to the country.
- sage grouse — a large grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, of the sagebrush regions of western North America, having plumage of gray, buff, and black.
- sagittarius — zodiac sign: Archer
- salsuginous — full of salt or able to grow in salty soil
- salting out — the addition of salt to a mixture to precipitate proteins, soaps, and other simple organic compounds.
- salting-out — Salting-out is the effect when adding a salt to a solvent containing an organic solute reduces the solubility of that solute.
- samuel ting — Samuel C(hao) C(hung) [chou choo ng] /tʃaʊ tʃʊŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1936, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- sand grouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanguinaria — the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis.
- sanguineous — of, relating to, or containing blood.
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- scatter rug — a small rug, placed on the floor in front of a chair, under a table, etc.
- scatter-gun — a shotgun
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- seigneurial — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
- sign manual — a personal signature, especially that of a sovereign or official on a public document.