9-letter words containing o, u, a, g
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outgallop — to gallop faster than or overtake by galloping
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outmanage — (transitive) To surpass in management; to manage better than.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- pedagogue — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- run along — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- square go — a fair fight between two individuals
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
- surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- tag cloud — a visual representation of user-generated electronic tags or keywords that classify and describe online content, typically an alphabetical list or a grouping of words in different font sizes, as to show relative frequency or provide links to further information: a tag cloud of the words used in the president's speech. See also tag1 (def 9b).
- tautology — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
- togavirus — a virus belonging to the Togaviridae family and which usually affects birds and mammals rather than humans