9-letter words containing g, u, r, a
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- quadrigae — Plural form of quadriga.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- 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.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rearguard — of or relating to a rear guard.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red guard — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- regularly — at regular times or intervals.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- 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.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sargassum — any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, widely distributed in the warmer waters of the globe, as S. bacciferum, the common gulfweed.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- 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
- slangular — relating to slang
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
- 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.
- 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.
- spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
- spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
- spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.