9-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- requoting — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- rerouting — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- rethought — the act of reconsidering.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- ring buoy — a ring-shaped life preserver.
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- 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.
- rough out — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rough-cut — cut into small, irregular pieces (contrasted with fine-cut): rough-cut tobacco.
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- rough-hew — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- 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.
- roughened — made rough
- roughhewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- 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.
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run along — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- 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.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- super-ego — Your super-ego is the part of your mind which makes you aware of what is right and wrong, and which causes you to feel guilty when you have done something wrong.
- supergood — extremely good
- superlong — extremely long
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- the rough — the part of the course bordering the fairways where the grass is untrimmed
- throngful — crowded or packed with people
- throughly — thoroughly.
- throw rug — scatter rug.