10-letter words containing r, o, u, g
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- horologium — a building supporting or containing a timepiece, as a clock tower.
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- igniferous — (rare) Producing fire.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- inglorious — shameful; disgraceful: inglorious retreat.
- inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
- insourcing — The practice of using an organization’s own personnel or other resources to accomplish a task.
- integrious — (rare) Marked by integrity.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- intragroup — Taking place within a group, especially within a social group.
- iron guard — a Romanian fascist party that was extremely nationalistic and anti-Semitic, eliminated after World War II.
- ivory gull — a white, arctic gull, Pagophila eburnea.
- jaguarondi — Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
- jormungand — Midgard serpent.
- journaling — The activity of keeping a diary, also known as journal.
- journeying — a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.
- jungle rot — any cutaneous disease or condition caused or induced by a tropical climate.
- kurrajongs — Plural form of kurrajong.
- lager lout — a rowdy or aggressive young drunk male
- languorous — characterized by languor; languid.
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- long purse — wealth; riches
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- loundering — a beating
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lounge car — club car.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- loup-garou — a werewolf; lycanthrope.
- low ground — Often, low grounds. Southern U.S. bottom (def 4).
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- luxembourg — a grand duchy surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium. 999 sq. mi. (2585 sq. km).
- maringouin — a mosquito, especially a large swamp mosquito.
- marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
- megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
- microfungi — Plural form of microfungus.
- microgauss — (physics) A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one millionth of a gauss.
- migrainous — Of, relating to, or afflicted with migraine.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morigerous — acquiescent, obedient, servile
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- mourningly — In a mourning manner; grievingly.