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10-letter words containing a, g, u

  • osculating — Present participle of osculate.
  • outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
  • outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
  • outgassing — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
  • outgeneral — to outdo or surpass in generalship.
  • outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
  • outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
  • outmanning — Present participle of outman.
  • outmigrant — A person who has migrated from one place to another, especially within a country.
  • outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
  • outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
  • outraising — Present participle of outraise.
  • outranging — Present participle of outrange.
  • outranking — Present participle of outrank.
  • outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
  • outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
  • overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
  • overtaught — taught to excess
  • page fault — (memory management)   In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
  • palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
  • panguingue — a card game of the rummy family that is played with from five to eight regular 52-card packs from which the eights, nines, and tens have been removed, the object being to win bonuses by melding certain groups of cards during the play and extra bonuses by melding all the cards in the hand.
  • pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
  • paraguayan — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
  • pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
  • plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  • playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • ploughable — able to be ploughed
  • ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
  • plug gauge — an accurately machined plug used for checking the diameter of a hole
  • plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
  • pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
  • polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
  • prayer rug — a small rug upon which a Muslim kneels and prostrates himself during his devotions.
  • prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
  • promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • purchasing — buying
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
  • push along — to go away
  • quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
  • quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
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