9-letter words containing e, g, u
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- haughtier — Comparative form of haughty.
- hauppauge — a city on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- headguard — a padded helmet worn to protect the head in contact sports such as rugby and boxing
- hearthrug — A rug laid in front of a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- homologue — something homologous.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- humbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hungerful — hungry
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- ideologue — a person who zealously advocates an ideology.
- ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
- immunogen — any substance or cell introduced into the body in order to generate an immune response.
- in league — If you say that someone is in league with another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- indulgent — characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
- ingenious — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuine — False, not genuine or authentic.
- ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
- ingenuous — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- intrigued — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intriguer — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intrigues — Plural form of intrigue.