8-letter words containing g, l, u
- promulge — to promulgate.
- pucelage — virginity
- puddling — a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
- pug mill — a mill for grinding and mixing materials, as clay or the ingredients of cement, to a desired condition.
- pugilism — the art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.
- pugilist — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- regulize — to separate (ore) into regulus and pure metal
- rejuggle — to juggle anew, to alter
- replough — to plough again
- replunge — the act of replunging
- rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- roseslug — any of various types of pest that feed on roses
- roughleg — any of several kinds of large hawk with feathered legs
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- rugelach — a fruit-and-nut pastry shaped like a croissant
- ruggedly — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- rugulose — finely rugose; having many small wrinkles.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- rutledge — Ann, 1816–35, fiancée of Abraham Lincoln.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- sea gull — a play (1896) by Anton Chekhov.
- sea slug — a nudibranch.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skulking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sloughed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.
- sluffing — 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.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- slugging — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.