9-letter words containing g, u, r
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- fissuring — Present participle of fissure.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- forejudge — forjudge.
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fortuning — Present participle of fortune.
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- frogmouth — any Australian and Oriental bird of the family Podargidae, related to the goatsuckers, having a broad, flattened, froglike mouth.
- frouncing — Present participle of frounce.
- frugalist — A person who acts frugally.
- frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
- frugivore — any chiefly fruit-eating organism, as certain bats.
- fruit gum — a type of chewy sweet with a fruit flavour
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulgorous — brilliant; dazzling
- fulgurant — flashing like lightning.
- fulgurate — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulgurite — a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning.
- fulgurous — characteristic of or resembling lightning: the fulgurous cracking of a whip.
- fullering — a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- fungiform — having the form of a fungus or mushroom.
- furloughs — Plural form of furlough.
- furnacing — Present participle of furnace.
- furrowing — Present participle of furrow.
- futtering — Present participle of futter.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- gardenful — An amount sufficient to fill a garden.
- garfunkel — Arthur ("Art") born 1942, U.S. singer.
- gargantua — an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- garrulity — the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
- garrulous — excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastraeum — the underside of the body, especially of a bird
- gastrique — A syrupy reduction of vinegar (or wine) and sugar.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- gather up — collect
- gaucherie — lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
- gauleiter — the leader or chief official of a political district under Nazi control.
- gaurantee — Misspelling of guarantee.