10-letter words containing r, o, u, g
- outrunning — Present participle of outrun.
- outscoring — Present participle of outscore.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overground — In an overground transport system, vehicles run on the surface of the ground, rather than below it.
- overruling — the act or instance of ruling over another
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- peer group — a group of people, usually of similar age, background, and social status, with whom a person associates and who are likely to influence the person's beliefs and behavior.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- perigonium — the envelope of modified leaves surrounding the antheridia in mosses.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- pnu-prolog — A parallel extension of NU-Prolog, implemented as a preproccessor.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- profulgent — radiant
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protologue — the original description of a species, genus, etc.
- protruding — to project.
- pundigrion — a pun
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- reoccuring — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- resourcing — the provision of resources
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rigorously — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- ring ouzel — a European thrush, Turdus torquatus, common in rocky areas. The male has a blackish plumage with a white band around the neck and the female is brown
- ring round — If you ring round or ring around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.