9-letter words containing g, u, r
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- scourging — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourings — dirt or refuse removed by scouring.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrounger — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scrubbing — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scurrying — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- seigneury — the domain of a seigneur.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- sergius i — died a.d. 701, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 687–701.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- 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
- slangular — relating to slang
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- slurrying — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- 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.
- spring up — If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist.
- 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
- squirming — to wriggle or writhe.
- 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.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- struggler — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- strung up — tense, anxious
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- stuttgart — a state in SW Germany: formed 1951. 13,800 sq. mi. (35,740 sq. km). Capital: Stuttgart.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- 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.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
- sugar bag — a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods
- sugar gum — a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock