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9-letter words containing g, u, n, a

  • quarrying — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
  • quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
  • radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
  • red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
  • repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
  • rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • rummaging — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
  • run along — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
  • sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
  • sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
  • shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
  • singulary — (of an operator) monadic
  • sitatunga — an antelope, Tragelaphus spekei, inhabiting marshy regions of central and eastern Africa.
  • situtunga — an antelope, Tragelaphus spekei, inhabiting marshy regions of central and eastern Africa.
  • slanguage — slang; a vocabulary of slang.
  • slangular — relating to slang
  • spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
  • sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
  • spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
  • squalling — the act or sound of squalling: The baby's squall was heard next door.
  • squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
  • squatting — occupying a property illegally
  • squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
  • staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
  • strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
  • subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
  • subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
  • subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
  • suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
  • sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
  • sung mass — a Mass in which parts of the proper and the ordinary are sung rather than recited; missa cantata.
  • sungazing — the practice of staring directly at the sun at sunset or sunrise, esp in the belief that doing so allows one to survive without eating food
  • sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
  • synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
  • synangium — a common vascular junction from which several arteries branch
  • tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
  • teniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
  • thuringia — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
  • tinguaite — an igneous rock containing feldspar, nepheline and aegirine
  • traguline — like or characteristic of a tragule
  • trengganu — a state in Malaysia, on the E central Malay Peninsula. 5050 sq. mi. (13,080 sq. km). Capital: Kuala Trengganu.
  • truanting — the condition or action of playing truant
  • tsingyuan — Older Spelling. Qingyuan.
  • tungstate — a salt of any tungstic acid.
  • tungusian — of or relating to a formerly nomadic Mongoloid people of E Siberia
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