8-letter words containing r, e, g, u
- merengue — a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin, characterized by a stiff-legged, limping step.
- meringue — merengue.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- naufrage — (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- nurnberg — German name of Nuremberg.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- orenburg — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outrages — Plural form of outrage.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overurge — to urge too strongly
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- portague — a 16th century Portuguese gold coin
- preguide — to give (somebody) guidance in advance
- prejudge — to judge beforehand.
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- puggaree — pugree.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- queering — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- re-argue — to argue or debate (a legal case, issue, etc) again
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- redargue — to prove wrong or invalid; disprove; refute.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- refigure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- refugees — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- refugium — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- reground — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- regulize — to separate (ore) into regulus and pure metal
- rejuggle — to juggle anew, to alter
- replough — to plough again
- replunge — the act of replunging
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- retaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.