9-letter words containing g, e, s, u
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- pugginess — stumpiness
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- regisseur — someone responsible for the staging of a theatrical work, especially of a ballet; director.
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- resurgent — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rose-slug — the larva of any of several sawflies, especially Endelomyia aethiops or Cladius isomerus, that skeletonize the foliage of roses.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scungille — the meat of a mollusc or conch, eaten as a delicacy
- sea gauge — an automatic sounding device registering the depth to which it is lowered.
- secluding — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- sergius i — died a.d. 701, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 687–701.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signeurie — seniority
- skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
- slanguage — slang; a vocabulary of slang.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spongeous — relating to or resembling a sponge
- spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- squeegeed — an implement edged with rubber or the like, for removing water from windows after washing, sweeping water from wet decks, etc.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- struggler — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.