7-letter words containing s, u, n, g
- noughts — Plural form of nought.
- nuggets — a lump of something, as of precious metal.
- nursing — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- nutmegs — Plural form of nutmeg.
- oppugns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oppugn.
- ousting — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- outings — Plural form of outing.
- outsang — simple past tense of outsing.
- outsing — to sing better than.
- outsung — past participle of outsing.
- pulsing — the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- pursing — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- pushing — that pushes.
- quangos — Plural form of quango.
- rousing — exciting; stirring: a rousing song.
- rushing — the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- rusting — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- sagunto — a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.
- sandbug — mole crab.
- sangui- — blood
- shoguns — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- sigmund — (in the Volsunga Saga) the son of Volsung and Liod; the father, through his sister, Signy, of Sinfjotli; the husband first of Borghild, then of Hjordis; and the father of Sigurd.
- sign up — a token; indication.
- sign-up — an act or instance of signing up.
- signups — an act or instance of signing up.
- singult — a sob
- six-gun — a six-shooter.
- snugged — warmly comfortable or cozy, as a place, accommodations, etc.: a snug little house.
- snugger — warmly comfortable or cozy, as a place, accommodations, etc.: a snug little house.
- snuggle — to lie or press closely, as for comfort or from affection; nestle; cuddle.
- songful — abounding in song; melodious.
- songhua — a river in NE China, flowing NW and NE through E and central Manchuria into the Amur River on the boundary of Siberia. 800 miles (1287 km) long.
- souring — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- spruing — Metallurgy. an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold. the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- subbing — a submarine.
- subring — a subset of a ring that is a subgroup under addition and that is closed under multiplication. Compare ring1 (def 22).
- subsong — an unstructured, often rambling vocalization of low volume heard in young birds and, at the start of the breeding season, in adult birds of certain species.
- sucking — not weaned.
- sudsing — soapy water.
- sueding — kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- sugging — the practice of selling products under the pretence of conducting market research
- suiting — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sun god — the sun considered or personified as a deity.
- sun-god — the sun considered or personified as a deity.
- sungari — Songhua.
- sunghua — Songhua.
- sunglow — a diffused, hazy light seen around the sun, caused by atmospheric dust.
- sunning — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- surfing — the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.