10-letter words containing e, g, u
- outweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of outweigh.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overground — In an overground transport system, vehicles run on the surface of the ground, rather than below it.
- overruling — the act or instance of ruling over another
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- 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.
- 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.
- peer group — a group of people, usually of similar age, background, and social status, with whom a person associates and who are likely to influence the person's beliefs and behavior.
- 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.
- pellet gun — a gun that fires imitation bullets, esp such a gun used as a toy
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- penguinery — a group, colony, or enclosure of penguins
- perigonium — the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- pinguitude — fatness
- 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.
- 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
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plug gauge — an accurately machined plug used for checking the diameter of a hole
- plugged in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
- plugged-in — closely connected; in touch with what is going on; informed; involved: He's one of the more plugged-in advisers at State House.
- plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- polygenous — polygenetic
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- prayer rug — a small rug upon which a Muslim kneels and prostrates himself during his devotions.
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- prejudging — a preliminary round of judging, as in a contest where a certain number or percentage of the entrants are eliminated before the final judging.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presurgery — the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures.
- profulgent — radiant
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protologue — the original description of a species, genus, etc.