10-letter words containing g, u, i
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pugilistic — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pummelling — the action of striking repeatedly with or as with the fists
- pundigrion — a pun
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- 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.
- 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.
- queryingly — in a querying manner
- quickening — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
- quiver leg — a round, tapered chair leg used in the Louis Quinze style and similar styles.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- rain gauge — an instrument for measuring rainfall.
- 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.
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- rebukingly — in a severe and disapproving manner
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recruiting — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- red-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
- refuelling — to supply again with fuel: to refuel an airplane.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- 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.
- religieuse — a woman belonging to a religious order, congregation, etc.
- reoccuring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- requesting — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- resecuring — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- reutlingen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, on the Echaz River.
- ridiculing — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.