9-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- neurology — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- newground — a tract of land recently cleared for cultivation.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- nonjuring — Describing the bishops, clergy and congregations that refused to swear allegiance to William III of England.
- nonruling — Not ruling; not in power.
- nonurgent — Not urgent.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- nu-prolog — L. Naish, U Melbourne. A Prolog with 'when' declarations, the successor to MU-Prolog. Type-checked. "NU-Prolog Reference Manual - Version 1.3", J.A. Thom et al eds, TR 86/10, U Melbourne (1988). Available (but not free). (See PNU-Prolog). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- occurring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- oenogarum — Garum diluted with wine.
- off guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- off-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- oppugners — Plural form of oppugner.
- orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
- out-group — people outside one's own group, especially as considered to be inferior or alien; a group perceived as other than one's own.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outcrying — Present participle of outcry.
- outgrowth — a natural development, product, or result: to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outriding — Present participle of outride.
- outrigger — a framework extended outboard from the side of a boat, especially, as in South Pacific canoes, supporting a float that gives stability.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outspring — to spring out
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- pop group — a band which plays pop music
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- qu-prolog — An extension of Prolog which performs meta-level computations over object languages, such as predicate calculi and lambda-calculi, which have object-level variables, and quantifiers that create local scopes for those variables. Qu-Prolog is well suited as an implementation language for theorem provers and support notations typically found in texts on mathematics and logic.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- reguerdon — a reward
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.