9-letter words containing g, r, o, u, s
- guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
- guestroom — a room for the lodging of guests.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- irriguous — well-watered, as land.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- oppugners — Plural form of oppugner.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outspring — to spring out
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- rose-slug — the larva of any of several sawflies, especially Endelomyia aethiops or Cladius isomerus, that skeletonize the foliage of roses.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- 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.
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- 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).
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.