11-letter words containing g, u, r, a
- lung cancer — malignant disease affecting the lungs
- luxuriating — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- maggotorium — a place where maggots are bred for use by fishers
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
- manna sugar — mannitol.
- manoeuvring — A manoeuvre.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- marine glue — a tarlike composition for coating the seams of a planked deck after caulking.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- martinsburg — a city in NE West Virginia.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- maunderings — Plural form of maundering.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- micturating — Present participle of micturate.
- miniaturing — Present participle of miniature.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- mount guard — If you mount guard or if you mount a guard, you organize people to watch or protect a person or place.
- mouth guard — protective shield for teeth
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- muck-raking — If you accuse someone of muck-raking, you are criticizing them for finding and spreading unpleasant or embarrassing information about someone, especially a public figure.
- multangular — having many angles; polyangular.
- multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mustard gas — an oily liquid, C 4 H 8 Cl 2 S, used as a chemical-warfare gas, blistering the skin and damaging the lungs, often causing blindness and death: introduced by the Germans in World War I.
- natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
- nonargument — a fallacious or flawed argument
- nongraduate — a person who is not a graduate of an educational institution
- nongranular — not consisting of granules
- nonsingular — not singular. Compare singular (def 7).
- nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- nursing bra — a bra for breastfeeding mothers which provides additional support and has cups that can be folded down so the infant can be fed without the mother having to remove the bra
- objurgating — Present participle of objurgate.
- objurgation — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- objurgative — That objurgates; sharply disapproving.
- objurgatory — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- onagraceous — belonging to the Onagraceae, the evening primrose family of plants.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- orange rust — a disease of blackberries and raspberries, characterized by an orange, powdery mass of spores on the undersides of the leaves and stunted, misshapen foliage, caused by a rust fungus, Gymnoconia interstitialis.
- organistrum — a stringed instrument played by two people
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.