10-letter words containing p, u, g, i
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pummelling — the action of striking repeatedly with or as with the fists
- pundigrion — a pun
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- setting-up — the establishment or creation of something
- slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
- soil group — one of a number of soil classes having the same kinds of horizons in the same sequence and under similar moisture and temperature regimes.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spirit gum — a glue used in fastening false hair, as a beard or mustache, to an actor's skin.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- springbuck — springbok.
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- summing-up — a summation or statement made for the purpose of reviewing the basic concepts or principles of an argument, story, explanation, testimony, or the like, and usually presented at the end.
- superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superlight — extremely light
- supertight — extremely tight
- supporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
- surplusing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- surprising — causing surprise, wonder, or astonishment.
- suspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- tapping up — (esp of a professional soccer club) the illicit practice of attempting to recruit a player while he is still bound by contract to another team
- tighten up — fasten more securely
- trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- unaspiring — lacking ambition or aspiration
- uncoupling — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- undrooping — not drooping, not sinking down; unfaltering
- unexpiring — to come to an end; terminate, as a contract, guarantee, or offer.
- unimposing — not imposing; unimpressive: an unimposing spectacle; a man of unimposing stature.
- unpleasing — not pleasing
- unrepining — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- unreposing — not relaxing, restful, or tranquil