10-letter words containing n, o, u, g
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brown lung — a debilitating lung disease resembling emphysema, occurring among textile workers from inhalation of cotton dust.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bung it on — to behave in a pretentious manner
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgion — Alternative form of chirurgeon; archaic spelling of surgeon.
- chiungchou — Qiongzhou.
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- cienfuegos — a port in S Cuba, on Cienfuegos Bay. Pop: 147 000 (2005 est)
- ciguatoxin — a toxin found in seafood
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clangorous — a loud, resonant sound; clang.
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- cofounding — to establish (an organization) with another or others.
- coinsuring — Present participle of coinsure.
- colloguing — Present participle of collogue.
- colourings — Plural form of colouring.
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- coming out — the declaration that one is gay
- coming up! — an expression used to announce that a meal is about to be served
- coming-out — a debut into society, especially a formal debut by a debutante.
- communings — negotiations conducted prior to drawing up a contract
- concluding — final
- concurring — to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
- concussing — Present participle of concuss.
- conducting — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- configures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of configure.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- congenious — (obsolete) congeneric.
- congruence — Congruence is when two things are similar or fit together well.
- congruency — congruence.
- conjugable — Capable of being conjugated.
- conjugally — In a conjugal manner; as husband and wife.
- conjugated — (of a molecule, compound, or substance) containing two or more double bonds alternating with single bonds
- conjugates — Plural form of conjugate.
- conquering — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- construing — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- consulting — acting in an advisory capacity on professional matters
- contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.