9-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- gymnasium — a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- languages — Plural form of language.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- ligatures — Plural form of ligature.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- messuages — Plural form of messuage.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mulligans — Plural form of mulligan.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- non-usage — a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- nugacious — trivial; unimportant or insignificant; nugatory.
- nut grass — either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- pasturage — pasture.