9-letter words containing a, g, u, s
- suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
- 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.
- sugar bag — a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods
- sugar gum — a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock
- sugar pea — snow pea.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
- sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugar-tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- 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.
- sugarless — having no sugar; specif., prepared with synthetic sweeteners
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sung mass — a Mass in which parts of the proper and the ordinary are sung rather than recited; missa cantata.
- sungazing — the practice of staring directly at the sun at sunset or sunrise, esp in the belief that doing so allows one to survive without eating food
- sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- 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.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- sylacauga — a city in central Alabama.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- synangium — a common vascular junction from which several arteries branch
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- tsingyuan — Older Spelling. Qingyuan.
- tungstate — a salt of any tungstic acid.
- tungusian — of or relating to a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
- turfgrass — grass grown for lawns, of a type that forms a dense even turf if mown and maintained
- unamusing — pleasantly entertaining or diverting: an amusing speaker.
- unceasing — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
- underages — shortage; deficiency in amount.
- ungrassed — not covered with grass
- ungreased — the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- unhasting — not rushing
- unlasting — continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.
- unmasking — to strip a mask or disguise from.
- unpausing — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- unsharing — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- unsparing — not sparing; liberal or profuse; excessive.
- unstaying — unresting
- unswaying — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
- unwasting — not wasting; not diminishing or decaying
- 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.
- upstaging — on or toward the back of the stage.
- vagarious — characterized by vagaries; erratic; capricious: a vagarious foreign policy.