9-letter words containing e, g, u
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- lug-soled — (of a shoe, boot, etc.) having lugs on the sole, as to provide secure footing on rugged terrain.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- magalogue — a combination of a magazine and a catalogue
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megajoule — a unit of work or energy, equal to one million joules.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- megaquake — an earthquake of exceptional destructive power, esp one with a magnitude of 8 or greater, which may generate a tsunami
- melungeon — a member of a people of mixed white, black, and American Indian ancestry living in the southern Appalachians.
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- messuages — Plural form of messuage.
- methought — simple past tense of methinks.
- misgauged — Simple past tense and past participle of misgauge.
- misguggle — to handle roughly or incompetently so as to spoil or crumple
- misguided — misled; mistaken: Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help the poor.
- misguider — One who misguides.
- misguides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misguide.
- misjudged — Simple past tense and past participle of misjudge.
- misjudges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misjudge.
- misusages — Plural form of misusage.
- monologue — a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.