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9-letter words containing g, u, n

  • suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
  • sufficing — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
  • 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.
  • suiciding — the intentional taking of one's own life.
  • summering — the season between spring and autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox, and in the Southern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox.
  • summiting — the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex.
  • sun grebe — finfoot.
  • sun-grebe — any of a gruiform family (Heliornithidae) of shy, long-necked tropical birds living along streams, lakes, etc.
  • sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
  • 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.
  • supergene — formed by descending waters, as mineral or ore deposits (opposed to hypogene).
  • superlong — extremely long
  • supplying — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
  • supposing — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
  • surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
  • surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
  • surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
  • surveying — the science or scientific method of making surveys of land.
  • surviving — to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
  • 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
  • tegmentum — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants
  • telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
  • ten gurus — the ten leaders of the Sikh religion from its founder Guru Nanak to Guru Govind Singh, who ended the line of gurus by calling on Sikhs to rely on the holy text of the Granth to guide them
  • teniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
  • thingummy — You refer to something or someone as thingummy, thingummyjig or thingummybob when you do not know or cannot be bothered to use the proper word or name for them.
  • thoughten — having a particular kind of thought or opinion
  • throngful — crowded or packed with people
  • thrumming — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
  • thrusting — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
  • thumbling — an extremely small person; a dwarf
  • thuringer — a mildly seasoned cervelat, either fresh or smoked.
  • thuringia — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
  • timenoguy — a taut rope on a ship used to prevent the tangling of lines and riggings
  • tinguaite — an igneous rock containing feldspar, nepheline and aegirine
  • tommy gun — Thompson submachine gun.
  • tonguelet — a small tongue
  • torturing — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
  • tough nut — difficult person
  • toughener — something that toughens
  • toughness — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
  • tourcoing — a city in N France, near the Belgian border.
  • 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.
  • trigonous — having three angles or corners, as a stem or seed; triangular.
  • trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
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