8-letter words containing g, u, s, t
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- pugilist — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rugosity — having wrinkles; wrinkled; ridged.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sastruga — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- shantung — Shandong.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shunting — the act or job of manoeuvring coaches
- sign out — a token; indication.
- sign-out — an act, instance, or time of signing out.
- sing out — to utter words or sounds in succession with musical modulations of the voice; vocalize melodically.
- slugfest — a baseball game in which both teams make many runs and extra-base hits.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- stageful — the number of people, or the amount of something, that fills a stage
- sten gun — a British light submachine gun.
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- studding — a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
- studying — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stuffing — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- stumping — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stun gun — a battery-powered, handheld weapon that fires an electric charge when held against a person and activated by a trigger or button, used, especially by police, to immobilize a person briefly and without injury.
- stunning — causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
- stunting — to use in doing stunts: to stunt an airplane.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- sunlight — the light of the sun; sunshine.
- thoughts — the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.
- thuggish — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- tissuing — Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
- toughest — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- toughish — somewhat tough.
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- tungshan — Tongshan.
- tungsten — a rare, metallic element having a bright-gray color, a metallic luster, and a high melting point, 3410° C, and found in wolframite, tungstite, and other minerals: used in alloys of high-speed cutting tools, electric-lamp filaments, etc. Symbol: W; atomic weight: 183.85; atomic number: 74; specific gravity: 19.3.
- tungstic — of or containing tungsten, especially in the pentavalent or hexavalent state.