10-letter words containing o, u, a, g
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- bargainous — (informal) cheap (characteristic of a bargain).
- bouguereau — Adolphe William [a-dawlf veel-yam] /aˈdɔlf vilˈyam/ (Show IPA), 1825–1905, French painter.
- boulangism — the doctrines of militarism and reprisals against Germany, advocated, especially in the 1880s, by the French general Boulanger.
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bowlingual — a device that allegedly translates a dog’s barks and grunts into a human language
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bulk cargo — unpackaged cargoes, such as grain or coal
- bump along — advance unevenly
- buzz along — a low, vibrating, humming sound, as of bees, machinery, or people talking.
- calico bug — harlequin bug.
- caliginous — dark; dim
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- canonsburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
- cautioning — Present participle of caution.
- cholagogue — a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum
- chuckwagon — A wagon equipped with food and cooking utensils, as on a ranch or in a lumber camp.
- 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.
- coagulable — that can be coagulated
- coagulants — Plural form of coagulant.
- coagulases — Plural form of coagulase.
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coagulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coagulate.
- coagulator — a substance that produces or aids coagulation.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- colleagues — an associate.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- 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.
- contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- coquillage — an ornamental shell motif.
- corn sugar — a dextrose made from cornstarch
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- corrugates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrugate.
- corrugator — a muscle whose contraction causes wrinkling of the brow
- courageous — Someone who is courageous shows courage.
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- davao gulf — a gulf of the Pacific Ocean on the SE coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.