10-letter words containing g, u, s
- pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pugilistic — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- push along — to go away
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
- quantising — Present participle of quantise.
- quasi-good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- quersprung — a jump turn in which a skier lands at right angles to the pole or poles.
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- regensburg — a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany, on the Danube: battle 1809.
- regularise — to make regular.
- religieuse — a woman belonging to a religious order, congregation, etc.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- requesting — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- resecuring — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- resubmerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- resurgence — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- rigorously — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rubiginous — rusty; rust-colored; brownish-red.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- ruggedised — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- russetting — a boot or a piece of russet clothing
- sac fungus — ascomycete.
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- san miguel — a city in E El Salvador.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.