9-letter words containing g, s, u
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- gutlessly — In a gutless way; with cowardice.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
- gymnasium — a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hiccoughs — Plural form of hiccough.
- 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.
- hugeously — hugely
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hui-tsung — 1082–1135, emperor of China 1101–26: painter and patron of art.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humungous — humongous.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hypogeous — underground; subterranean.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- ill-usage — unfair, unkind, or cruel treatment; abuse
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- ingenious — characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction: an ingenious machine.
- ingenuous — free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
- ingluvies — a dilation or pouch in the oesophagus of certain animals that receives food prior to the main stomach, esp a bird's craw, or the first stomach of a cow or other ruminating animal
- inrushing — Moving towards or into.
- insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
- insurgent — a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- intrigues — Plural form of intrigue.
- irriguous — well-watered, as land.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- isogenous — of the same or similar origin, as parts derived from the same or corresponding tissues of the embryo.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- jig is up — a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
- jig-is-up — a rapid, lively, springy, irregular dance for one or more persons, usually in triple meter.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- judgeless — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judgments — Plural form of judgment.
- jugginses — Plural form of juggins.
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.