10-letter words containing g, u, a
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sialagogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- sialogogue — sialagogic (def 1).
- singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- snow gauge — an instrument for measuring the depth of snow.
- soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
- south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- spun glass — blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.
- spun sugar — a confection resembling fluff or floss, made from hot boiled sugar that has threaded, used as a garnish, frosting, or in making cotton candy.
- squabbling — act of quarrelling
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- square peg — a person or thing that is a misfit, such as an employee in a job for which he or she is unsuited
- squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
- squeteague — an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis, of the croaker family.
- squillagee — squeegee.
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
- subangular — fairly angular
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- subglacial — beneath a glacier: a subglacial stream.
- subglossal — of or relating to the tongue.
- subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- sublingual — situated under the tongue, or on the underside of the tongue.
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- subprogram — procedure (def 4b).
- subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
- suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugar bowl — a small bowl, usually having a cover, for serving granulated sugar or sugar cubes.
- sugar bush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.