10-letter words containing g, u, a
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- qualifying — Present participle of qualify.
- quantising — Present participle of quantise.
- quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quarterage — the act of providing troops with living accommodations.
- quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quasi-good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- rain gauge — an instrument for measuring rainfall.
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rating nut — a nut that screws onto the lower end of the rod of a clock pendulum for raising or lowering the weight to alter the rate of the clock.
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- rear guard — a military detachment to protect the rear of a main force or body
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- regularise — to make regular.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- regularize — to make regular.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- reregulate — to regulate again or anew
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- ring gauge — ring1 (def 21).
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
- sac fungus — ascomycete.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- san miguel — a city in E El Salvador.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sanguinary — full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle.
- sanguinely — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sao miguel — the largest island of the Azores. 150,000. 288 sq. mi. (746 sq. km).
- satya yuga — the first and best of the four Yugas.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.