9-letter words containing g, u, r
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- lurkingly — So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- lynchburg — a city in central Virginia.
- magdeburg — a state in central Germany. 9515 sq. mi. (24,644 sq. km). Capital: Magdeburg.
- maiduguri — a city in NE Nigeria.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- midground — The point between foreground and background in an image.
- minirugby — a version of rugby played with nine players per team on a pitch half the usual size
- misguider — One who misguides.
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- moro gulf — a gulf of the Celebes Sea on the SW side of Mindanao, in the Philippines.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mu-prolog — (language) Prolog with "wait" declarations for coroutining, developed by L. Naish of the Univeristy of Melbourne in 1982.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mudlogger — a person in the oil industry who checks the mud for traces of oil or gas
- mugearite — an igneous rock containing oligoclase, olivine, orthoclase, and apatite
- mullingar — a town in N central Republic of Ireland, the county town of Co Westmeath; site of cathedral; cattle raised. Pop: 15 621 (2002)
- multidrug — Of or pertaining to multiple drugs.
- multigerm — (in certain varieties of sugar beet) having seed balls with multiple fruits, thus being able to produce several seedlings
- multigram — Of more than one gram.
- multigrid — involving several grids
- murdering — Present participle of murder.
- murmuring — a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- muttering — to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- nagarjuna — c. 150–c. 250 ad, Indian Buddhist monk, founder of the Madhyamika (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism: noted for his philosophical writings
- narguileh — hookah
- naughtier — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- negritude — the historical, cultural, and social heritage considered common to black people collectively.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.