10-letter words containing g, u, s
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- oogamously — by means of oogamy
- orangutans — Plural form of orangutan.
- osculating — Present participle of osculate.
- otherguess — of another kind; different.
- oughtlings — at all
- outgassing — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outgrowths — Plural form of outgrowth.
- outguessed — Simple past tense and past participle of outguess.
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
- outraising — Present participle of outraise.
- outriggers — Plural form of outrigger.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- outscoring — Present participle of outscore.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- outsetting — the act of public proclamation
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- outsinging — Present participle of outsing.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
- polygenous — polygenetic
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygyny.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presurgery — the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult