8-letter words containing g, e, s, u
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scourger — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scrouger — something big
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- sea gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- sea slug — a nudibranch.
- segueing — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- shrugged — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- signieur — a lord
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugabed — a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- smuggery — the condition or an instance of being smug; smugness
- smuggler — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- smugness — contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- snuggery — a snug place or position.
- snuggies — warm knitted underwear, especially long underpants, for women or children.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- splurger — a person who splurges
- spousage — marriage
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- squeegee — an implement edged with rubber or the like, for removing water from windows after washing, sweeping water from wet decks, etc.
- squegger — an oscillator that produces an irregular current which builds up, is suppressed when it reaches a certain amplitude, and later builds up again
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squilgee — squeegee.
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- sten gun — a British light submachine gun.
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subgenus — a category of related species within a genus.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superbug — a pathogenic bacterium that has developed immunity to antibiotics, or an insect that has developed immunity to insecticides.
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- supergun — any extremely powerful gun
- surgeful — full of surge
- toughest — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- tungsten — a rare, metallic element having a bright-gray color, a metallic luster, and a high melting point, 3410° C, and found in wolframite, tungstite, and other minerals: used in alloys of high-speed cutting tools, electric-lamp filaments, etc. Symbol: W; atomic weight: 183.85; atomic number: 74; specific gravity: 19.3.