9-letter words containing g, u, e, r
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chirurgie — (archaic) surgery.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- configure — If you configure a piece of computer equipment, you set it up so that it is ready for use.
- congruent — If one thing is congruent with another thing, they are similar or fit together well.
- corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- courgette — Courgettes are long thin vegetables with dark green skin.
- courrèges — André (ɑ̃dre). 1923–2016, French couturier: helped to launch unisex fashion in the mid-1960s
- crataegus — (botany) Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.
- cream jug — a small jug for serving cream
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- curettage — the process of using a curette
- curetting — to scrape with a curette.
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- desargues — Gérard [zhey-rar] /ʒeɪˈrar/ (Show IPA), 1593–1662, French mathematician.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disguiser — One who, or that which, disguises.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- doumergue — Gaston [gas-tawn] /gasˈtɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1863–1937, French statesman: president of France 1924–31.
- dragqueen — Alternative form of drag queen.
- draughted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dredge up — Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
- drug test — screening for traces of a substance
- drugmaker — a person or company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- dungareed — wearing dungarees
- dungarees — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dungeoner — a thing which or a jailer who confines in, or as if in, a dungeon
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- egrecious — Misspelling of egregious.
- egregious — Outstandingly bad; shocking.
- ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
- encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).