9-letter words containing p, u, g
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gangpunch — to duplicate (a punch card's data) onto subsequent cards.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gather up — collect
- gazumping — Present participle of gazump.
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- get it up — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get up to — do: sth mischievous
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gjellerup — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1857–1919, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.
- glow plug — a device for each cylinder of a diesel engine with a heating element to heat the incoming fuel and air so that combustion will take place more readily when the engine is cold.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- gooped up — sticky with goop
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- gowpenful — an amount that can be contained in cupped hands
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- group sex — sexual activity involving three or more people
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupwork — (education, therapy) Work done in groups.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gruppetto — a turn
- guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- guideship — the position of a guide
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
- gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
- gum plant — gumweed.
- gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
- gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hauppauge — a city on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- hiccuping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- high jump — sport: jumping over a high bar
- high-jump — to participate in the high jump; compete as a high jumper.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.