9-letter words containing d, u, g
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outdesign — to exceed in designing
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outgunned — to exceed in firepower.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outriding — Present participle of outride.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- pedagogue — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- puddening — the rope fender on a boat
- puppy dog — puppy (def 1).
- quadrigae — Plural form of quadriga.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rearguard — of or relating to a rear guard.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red guard — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reducting — to reduce.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- reguerdon — a reward
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- roughened — made rough
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- ruggedize — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- sigismund — 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor 1411–37.
- smogbound — surrounded by smog.
- snug down — to make ready for a storm by reducing sail, lashing movable gear, etc.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- solifugid — sun spider.
- soundings — measurements of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- squeegeed — an implement edged with rubber or the like, for removing water from windows after washing, sweeping water from wet decks, etc.
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.