6-letter words containing g, o, u
- longus — ?3rd century ad, Greek author of the prose romance Daphnis and Chloe
- loughs — Plural form of lough.
- lounge — to pass time idly and indolently.
- loungy — to pass time idly and indolently.
- lugano — a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Lugano: a financial centre and tourist resort. Pop: 26 560 (2000)
- lugosi — Bela, 1884–1956, U.S. actor, born in Hungary: best known for his roles in horror films.
- moghul — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- moguls — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- morgue — a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- mought — (obsolete, outside, US dialects) Alternative form of might.
- nogaku — Nō.
- nougat — a chewy or brittle candy containing almonds or other nuts and sometimes fruit.
- nought — nothing.
- ogburn — William Fielding, 1886–1959, U.S. sociologist and educator.
- ogooué — a river in W central Africa, rising in SW Congo-Brazzaville and flowing generally northwest and north through Gabon to the Atlantic. Length: about 970 km (683 miles)
- okrugs — Plural form of okrug.
- oppugn — to assail by criticism, argument, or action.
- oughta — (colloquial, or, dialectical) Ought to.
- oughts — a cipher (0); zero.
- outage — an interruption or failure in the supply of power, especially electricity.
- outbeg — to beg more than or better than
- outgas — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outgun — to exceed in firepower.
- outing — a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.: He always left himself an out.
- outrig — the supply of something
- pigout — a meal eaten in excess or large amounts
- plough — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- popgun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
- potgun — a pot-shaped gun or mortar, a gun with a large bore
- progun — in favour of the public owning firearms
- pugdog — pug1 (def 1).
- putlog — any of a number of short pieces of lumber supporting a scaffold's floor.
- quahog — an edible clam, Venus (Mercenaria) mercenaria, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast, having a relatively thick shell.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- quohog — quahog
- ragout — French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- regulo — any of a number of temperatures to which a gas oven may be set
- rigour — strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- roguer — a person who acts like a rogue
- rotgut — cheap and inferior liquor.
- rouged — any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- roughy — a small marine fish, Arripis georgianus, of New Zealand and Australia.
- rugola — arugula
- rugosa — any of various shrubs descended from a particular wild rose, Rosa rugosa
- rugose — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shough — a type of lapdog, thought to have been brought from Iceland
- slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- sought — simple past tense and past participle of seek.
- sundog — parhelion.