8-letter words containing g, u, t
- thuggery — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- thuggish — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumping — of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- 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.
- toad bug — any of several small broad aquatic insect-eating hemipterous insects of the family Gelastocoridae, having toadlike characteristics.
- toby jug — Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tonguing — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongzhou — former name of Nantong.
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- toughest — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- toughies — a tough person, especially one who is belligerent.
- toughish — somewhat tough.
- trap gun — a firearm designed for trapshooting.
- trigonum — trigone.
- truckage — conveyance by a truck or trucks.
- trucking — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- true bug — bug1 (def 1).
- trumping — a trumpet.
- trunking — the cables that take a common route through an exchange building linking ranks of selectors
- 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.
- tubingen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, SW Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: university.
- tule fog — dense ground fog that occurs in low-lying areas of the Central Valley of California.
- tumbling — an act of tumbling or falling.
- tung oil — a yellow drying oil derived from the seeds of a tung tree, Aleurites fordii, used in varnishes, linoleum, etc.
- tungchow — Tongzhou.
- 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.
- tungting — a lake in S China, in Hunan province. 1450 sq. mi. (3755 sq. km).
- tungusic — a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Manchuria and central and SE Siberia, including Manchu, Evenki, Even, and languages of the Amur River region, as Nanay.
- tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- turgenev — Ivan Sergeevich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, Russian novelist.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- turlough — a seasonal lake or pond: a low-lying area on limestone, esp in Ireland, that becomes flooded in wet weather by the upsurge of underlying ground water
- tuskegee — a city in E Alabama: location of Tuskegee Institute.
- tussling — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
- tutelage — the act of guarding, protecting, or guiding; office or function of a guardian; guardianship.
- tutorage — the office, authority, or care of a tutor.
- tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- ugaritic — of or relating to Ugarit, its people, or their language.
- umangite — a copper selenide mineral, Cu3Se2, having a dark blue or red colour and metallic lustre
- unbought — simple past tense and past participle of buy.
- unbright — not bright