8-letter words containing f, u, g
- gruiform — of or relating to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots.
- guffawed — a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.
- guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gulflike — Resembling a gulf or some aspect of one.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- gulfweed — a coarse, olive-brown, branching seaweed, Sargassum bacciferum, common in the Gulf Stream and tropical American seas, characterized by numerous berrylike air vessels.
- gunfight — a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- gunflint — the flint in a flintlock.
- hog fuel — wood chips or shavings, residue from sawmills, etc., used for fuel, landfill, animal feed, and surfacing paths and running tracks.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- infusing — Present participle of infuse.
- ingulfed — Simple past tense and past participle of ingulf.
- jungfrau — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 13,668 feet (4166 meters).
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- langlauf — the sport of cross-country skiing.
- laughful — full of laughter
- lightful — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lungfish — any of various slender, air-breathing fishes of the order (or subclass) Dipnoi, of rivers and lakes in Africa, South America, and Australia, having a lunglike air bladder as well as gills and growing to a length of 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters).
- lungfuls — Plural form of lungful.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mcguffin — an object or event in a book or a film that serves as the impetus for the plot
- muffling — Present participle of muffle.
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- outfight — To fight or battle better than.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- quaffing — to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- queefing — Present participle of queef.
- refigure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- refugees — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- refugium — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- scuffing — to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- sluffing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- snuffing — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- stuffing — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- surgeful — full of surge
- the gulf — the Persian Gulf or the surrounding region