8-letter words containing n, o, u, g
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- mouching — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- moulding — a growth of minute fungi forming on vegetable or animal matter, commonly as a downy or furry coating, and associated with decay or dampness.
- moulting — Present participle of moult.
- mounding — a natural elevation of earth; a hillock or knoll.
- mounting — A backing, setting, or support for something.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mousings — Plural form of mousing.
- mouthing — the action of speaking in a meaningless, bombastic, or hypocritical manner.
- mundungo — (in Spain) tripe
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- muskegon — a port in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- nonguest — a person who is not a guest, esp referring to a computer or internet site login
- nonguilt — the state of being innocent or not guilty
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- one-lung — having or equipped with only one lung.
- oogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to oocytes.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- oughtn't — ought not, ought not to
- outdoing — Present participle of outdo.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outgoing — going out; departing: outgoing trains.
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- outnight — to mention nights more often than
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- outsings — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsing.
- outsting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- outswing — (cricket) The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.
- outswung — made to curve outwards
- outvying — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- owen gun — a type of simple recoil-operated 9 mm sub-machine-gun first used by Australian forces in World War II
- oxtongue — any of various Eurasian plants of the genus Picris, having oblong bristly leaves and clusters of dandelion-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
- pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.