9-letter words containing a, s, g
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quasi-gay — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- racegoers — Plural form of racegoer.
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ramblings — If you describe a speech or piece of writing as someone's ramblings, you are saying that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or insane.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- ravenings — rapacious behaviour and activities
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- re-assign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- realising — to grasp or understand clearly.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- regalness — of or relating to a king; royal: the regal power.
- registrar — a person who keeps a record; an official recorder.
- rehashing — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- repassage — a passage back or return, a repass or act of repassing
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- restaging — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- restating — to state again or in a new way.
- rigsdaler — a former silver coin of Denmark, equal to 16 skillings; rix-dollar.
- ringstand — a stand on which laboratory equipment is placed
- road sign — traffic notice
- rodgersia — a type of flowering plant which grows in shady and moist conditions
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rye grass — Rye grass is a type of grass that is grown for animals such as cows to eat.
- rye-grass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
- sabrewing — a large hummingbird of the genus Campylopterous, with long curved wings
- sacagawea — ("Bird Woman") 1787?–1812? Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.
- sacralgia — a pain in the sacrum
- sacrilege — the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
- saddening — causing someone to become sad
- saddlebag — a large bag or pouch, usually one of a pair, hung from a saddle, laid over the back of a horse behind the saddle, or mounted over the rear wheel of a bicycle or motorcycle.
- safariing — a journey or expedition, for hunting, exploration, or investigation, especially in eastern Africa.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sag wagon — a support vehicle accompanying a bicycle touring group that carries spare parts, luggage, etc., and sometimes also transports bicycles and cyclists.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sage cock — the male sage grouse.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite
- sagginess — sagging or tending to sag: a saggy roof.
- sagittary — a centaur with a bow, as Chiron.
- sagittate — shaped like an arrowhead.
- sago palm — any of several tropical Old World palms, as of the genera Metroxylon and Caryota, that yield sago.
- sailoring — the occupation or duties of a sailor.
- saintling — a little saint