10-letter words containing r, e, g, u
- rocket gun — any weapon that uses a rocket as a projectile, as a rocket launcher or bazooka.
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- route-ring — any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- rubiginose — rust-coloured or rusty
- rug-cutter — a person who jitterbugs.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- ruggedised — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
- russetting — a boot or a piece of russet clothing
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
- scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- scroungers — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- serge suit — a suit made of serge, a twill-weave woollen or worsted fabric
- sergius ii — died a.d. 847, pope 844–847.
- sergius iv — died 1012, pope 1009–12.
- setigerous — having setae or bristles.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
- square leg — the position of a fielder on the left of the batsman and almost on the opposite side of the wicket.
- square peg — a person or thing that is a misfit, such as an employee in a job for which he or she is unsuited
- squireling — a landowner of a small estate.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- subaverage — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- submanager — a secondary or assistant manager
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sugar cane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sugar cube — small block of sugar
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sugar tree — a sugar maple.
- sugar-free — containing no sugar: a sugar-free cola.
- sugarallie — liquorice
- sugarberry — a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
- sugarhouse — a shed or other building where maple syrup or maple sugar is made.