9-letter words containing l, u, g
- ferruling — a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
- field gun — a gun specially designed for service in direct support of front-line troops
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- figurally — consisting of figures, especially human or animal figures: the figural representations contained in ancient wall paintings.
- figuredly — in a figured manner
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- fish glue — a type of glue made by prolonged boiling of the connective tissue of fish
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagellum — A slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic whiplike appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc., to swim.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flame gun — a type of flame-thrower for destroying garden weeds
- flash gun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flashguns — Plural form of flashgun.
- flaughter — a fluttering
- flaunting — Present participle of flaunt.
- 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)
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- flugelman — fugleman.
- flurrying — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flux gate — Physics. an instrument for indicating the field strength of an external magnetic field, as that of the earth: used in some gyrocompasses and magnetometers.
- forgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- foundling — an infant or small child found abandoned; a child without a known parent or guardian.
- frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
- 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.
- fuguelike — Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- fulgently — In a fulgent manner; so as to dazzle or glitter.
- 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.
- full-page — A full-page advertisement, picture, or article in a newspaper or magazine uses a whole page.
- fullering — a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron.
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- fungoidal — of, relating to, or caused by a fungus or fungi; resembling a fungus or fungi; fungoid
- funloving — Alternative spelling of fun-loving.
- funneling — a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
- furloughs — Plural form of furlough.
- fuselages — Plural form of fuselage.
- fustilugs — a fat, gross, or frowzy person, esp a woman
- gainfully — In a gainful manner; profitably.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gallaudet — Thomas Hopkins, 1787–1851, U.S. educator of the deaf and writer.
- gallienus — (Publius Licinius Egnatius) died a.d. 268, emperor of Rome 253–268 (son of Valerian).
- gallinule — any aquatic bird of the family Rallidae, having elongated, webless toes.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily