9-letter words containing n, a, u, g
- in league — If you say that someone is in league with another person to do something bad, you mean that they are working together to do that thing.
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- indraught — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- ingluvial — of or relating to an ingluvies
- jargonaut — Someone who uses jargon excessively.
- juneating — an early-season apple
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- kuangchou — Wade-Giles. Canton.
- kurrajong — an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- kwangtung — Older Spelling. Guangdong.
- la laguna — city in Tenerife, Canary Islands: pop. 128,000
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- langrenus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 85 miles (135 km) in diameter.
- languaged — Having a specified type or number of languages.
- languages — Plural form of language.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- languette — a thin plate fastened to the mouth of certain organ pipes.
- languidly — lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow: a languid manner.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- lauenburg — a region in Schleswig-Holstein, in NW Germany: duchy under German rulers 1260–1689; later part of Prussia.
- laughline — a wrinkle near the outer corner of the eye, as if left from smiling or laughing
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- lingually — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- lingulate — formed like a tongue; ligulate.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- long haul — journey: long-distance
- long-haul — line-haul.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- magnalium — an alloy of magnesium and aluminum, sometimes also containing copper, nickel, tin, and lead.
- magnesium — a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries. Symbol: Mg; atomic weight: 24.312; atomic number: 12; specific gravity: 1.74 at 20°C.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- making-up — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- malaguena — a Spanish dance similar to the fandango, originating in Málaga.
- manage up — to build a successful working relationship with a superior, manager, or employer
- mandelbug — (jargon, programming) /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- mangetout — A vegetable pea eaten when immature.
- mangulate — to bend or twist out of shape; mangle
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- maxim gun — an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- mesangium — (anatomy) A thin layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries.