10-letter words containing r, e, g, u
- bugger-all — absolutely nothing; nothing at all: Those reckless investments left him with bugger-all.
- buildering — the practice of climbing tall urban buildings, for sport or publicity.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bulk large — to be or seem important or prominent
- bulldogger — a person who brings an animal, esp a steer, to the ground by twisting its head from the horns
- burgenland — a state of E Austria. Capital: Eisenstadt. Pop: 276 419 (2003 est). Area: 3965 sq km (1531 sq miles)
- burgeoning — rapidly developing or growing; flourishing
- burger bar — a restaurant selling primarily hamburgers and similar dishes
- burglarize — If a building is burglarized, a thief enters it by force and steals things.
- burlingame — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, U.S. diplomat.
- burst page — banner
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- cane sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar cane, which is identical to that obtained from sugar beet
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- centrifuge — A centrifuge is a machine that spins mixtures of different substances around very quickly so that they separate by centrifugal force.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chequering — Present participle of chequer.
- chirurgeon — surgeon
- chirurgery — surgery.
- chundering — vomit.
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- churchgoer — A churchgoer is a person who goes to church regularly.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- clustering — cluster
- cluttering — A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
- comburgess — (formerly) a fellow citizen or freeman of a borough
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- configures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of configure.
- congruence — Congruence is when two things are similar or fit together well.
- congruency — congruence.
- conquering — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- 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.
- counterbug — (humour) A bug used as a relpy to refute another person's bug report, as in "counterargument".
- countering — in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
- courageous — Someone who is courageous shows courage.
- courgettes — Plural form of courgette.
- couriering — Present participle of courier.
- craigfluke — a common name for the grey sole fish Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
- culvertage — the forfeiture of a person's property, thereby reducing him to the status of a villain
- curettages — Plural form of curettage.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
- curtseying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curvetting — Present participle of curvet.
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- daguerrean — relating to Daguerre or the daguerreotype
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- de rigueur — If you say that a possession or habit is de rigueur, you mean that it is fashionable and therefore necessary for anyone who wants to avoid being considered unfashionable.