9-letter words containing g, u, n
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- sigismund — 1368–1437, Holy Roman emperor 1411–37.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- signeurie — seniority
- singulary — (of an operator) monadic
- singultus — a hiccup.
- 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.
- skylounge — a vehicle designed to be lifted by helicopter between an intown passenger terminal and an airport.
- slanguage — slang; a vocabulary of slang.
- slangular — relating to slang
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- sloughing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slungshot — a weight attached to the end of a cord and used as a weapon
- slurrying — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- smogbound — surrounded by smog.
- smuggling — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- snug down — to make ready for a storm by reducing sail, lashing movable gear, etc.
- soundings — measurements of atmospheric conditions, as made using a radiosonde or rocketsonde
- 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.
- spongeous — relating to or resembling a sponge
- spongious — spongy or relating to a sponge
- 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.
- spring up — If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist.
- 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.
- squinting — designating a modifier, as an adverb, that can be interpreted as modifying either the preceding or the following part of the construction in which it appears (Ex.: often in “those who lie often are found out”); also, designating the construction itself
- squirming — to wriggle or writhe.
- stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- stoughton — a city in E Massachusetts.
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- strung up — tense, anxious
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subsiding — to sink to a low or lower level.
- subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.