11-letter words containing n, o, u, g
- bourgeoning — to grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
- bourguignon — a sauce made with red wine, onions, and seasoning
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- bring round — to restore (a person) to consciousness, esp after a faint
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- bugging out — Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- bull tongue — a heavy plough used in growing cotton, having an almost vertical mouldboard
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bulldogging — one of an English breed of medium-sized, short-haired, muscular dogs with prominent, undershot jaws, usually having a white and tan or brindled coat, raised originally for bullbaiting.
- bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
- buon giorno — good day; hello
- burning out — to undergo rapid combustion or consume fuel in such a way as to give off heat, gases, and, usually, light; be on fire: The fire burned in the grate.
- bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- carousingly — in a carousing manner
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- cataloguing — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cauligenous — originating or protruding from the stem of a plant
- changeround — the process of changing position
- chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
- chuck wagon — a wagon carrying provisions and cooking utensils for men, such as cowboys, who work in the open
- churchgoing — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
- cnidogenous — producing or containing nematocysts.
- coagulating — Present participle of coagulate.
- coagulation — Coagulation is the process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid, for example, the process that results in the formation of a blood clot.
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- collagenous — any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling.
- comminuting — Present participle of comminute.
- common gull — a type of gull, Larus canus
- communizing — Present participle of communize.
- commutating — Present participle of commutate.
- compounding — the addition of interest on interest already earned or charged
- concubinage — cohabitation without legal marriage
- configurate — to shape or fashion
- configuring — Present participle of configure.
- confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- confusingly — causing or tending to cause confusion: a confusing attempt at explanation.
- congenerous — Having the same (kind of) origin or action.
- congruently — agreeing; accordant; congruous.
- congruities — Plural form of congruity.
- congruously — In a congruous manner.
- conjugality — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
- conjugately — In a conjugate manner.
- conjugating — Present participle of conjugate.
- conjugation — inflection of a verb for person, number, tense, voice, mood, etc
- conjugative — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- consanguine — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consumingly — In a consuming manner; so as to consume.
- convoluting — rolled up together or with one part over another.
- cooccurring — Present participle of cooccur.