6-letter words containing g, u, a
- outgas — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- pan gu — P'an Ku.
- plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- plaguy — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- prague — a republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.
- puglia — Italian name of Apulia.
- quagga — an extinct equine mammal, Equus quagga, of southern Africa, related to and resembling the zebra, but striped only on the forepart of the body and the head.
- quaggy — of the nature of or resembling a quagmire; marshy; boggy.
- quagma — Theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks.
- quahog — an edible clam, Venus (Mercenaria) mercenaria, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast, having a relatively thick shell.
- quaigh — A traditional, shallow, two-handled Scottish cup symbolising friendship.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- ragout — French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- raguly — having tooth-like or stub-like projections
- ragusa — a province in SE Italy.
- regula — (in a Doric entablature) a fillet, continuing a triglyph beneath the taenia, from which guttae are suspended.
- rugate — wrinkle; rugose.
- rugola — arugula
- rugosa — any of various shrubs descended from a particular wild rose, Rosa rugosa
- rugrat — crawling infant, young child
- rugula — arugula.
- salugi — a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth.
- sargus — a sea fish from the family Sparidae, more commonly known as the white seabream
- sauger — a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- saughy — made of willow; full of willows
- saugus — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- segura — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- shaugh — a smoke or a draw on a tobacco pipe
- sugars — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sugary — of, containing, or resembling sugar.
- tag up — to return to the base and touch it before taking another lead or running
- taguan — a large nocturnal flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista, of high forests in the East Indies that uses its long tail as a rudder
- tangun — a small and sturdy pony native to Tibet and Bhutan
- tanguy — Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- targum — a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.
- tatung — Datong.
- taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
- tautog — a black food and game fish, Tautoga onitis, inhabiting waters along the North Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- tegula — (in certain insects) a scalelike lobe at the base of the forewing.
- tragus — a fleshy prominence at the front of the external opening of the ear.
- tuareg — a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
- tubage — tubes collectively
- tugela — a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls, 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)
- tughra — the official emblem of a Turkish Sultan
- ubangi — French Oubangi. a river in W central Africa, forming part of the boundary between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, flowing W and S into the Congo (Zaire) River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- uganda — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- ugarit — an ancient city in Syria, N of Latakia, on the site of modern Ras Shamra: destroyed by an earthquake early in the 13th century b.c.; excavations have yielded tablets written in cuneiform and hieroglyphic script that reveal important information on Canaanite mythology.
- ugliac — (language) An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- ugrian — denoting or pertaining to an ethnological group including the Magyars and related peoples of western Siberia.
- ullage — the amount by which the contents fall short of filling a container, as a cask or bottle.