8-letter words containing g, u, l
- sluggish — indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slumming — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- smuggler — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- splurger — a person who splurges
- squiggle — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggly — a short, irregular curve or twist, as in writing or drawing.
- squiggol — Bird-Meertens Formalism
- squilgee — squeegee.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- subgoals — the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.
- suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- sunglass — burning glass.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- surgeful — full of surge
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- the gulf — the Persian Gulf or the surrounding region
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- tule fog — dense ground fog that occurs in low-lying areas of the Central Valley of California.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- tung oil — a yellow drying oil derived from the seeds of a tung tree, Aleurites fordii, used in varnishes, linoleum, etc.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- turlough — a seasonal lake or pond: a low-lying area on limestone, esp in Ireland, that becomes flooded in wet weather by the upsurge of underlying ground water
- tussling — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
- tutelage — the act of guarding, protecting, or guiding; office or function of a guardian; guardianship.
- ugliness — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- ungainly — not graceful; awkward; unwieldy; clumsy: an ungainly child; an ungainly prose style.
- ungalled — not irritated or abraded
- ungelded — to castrate (an animal, especially a horse).
- ungenial — unfriendly
- ungentle — not gentle
- ungently — in an ungentle manner
- ungilded — covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.
- unglazed — having a surface covered with a glaze; lustrous; smooth; glassy.
- unguilty — innocent
- ungulate — having hoofs.
- unialgal — of, relating to, or derived from a single algal cell.
- unkingly — not appropriate to a king
- unlogged — a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a felled tree.
- unloving — feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- unmingle — to separate
- untangle — to bring out of a tangled state; disentangle; unsnarl.
- unvulgar — not vulgar or common; refined; free from vulgarity
- urgently — compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- urgingly — in an urging manner