8-letter words containing s, u, r, g
- scourger — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrouger — something big
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scroungy — given to or characterized by scrounging.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- shrugged — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- signieur — a lord
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- smuggery — the condition or an instance of being smug; smugness
- smuggler — to import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- snuggery — a snug place or position.
- sour gas — Sour gas is natural gas with a high sulfur content.
- sour gum — a cornaceous tree, Nyssa sylvatica, of the eastern US, having glossy leaves, soft wood, and sour purplish fruits
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- splurger — a person who splurges
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- spurring — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- squegger — an oscillator that produces an irregular current which builds up, is suppressed when it reaches a certain amplitude, and later builds up again
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- squiring — (in England) a country gentleman, especially the chief landed proprietor in a district.
- struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subgrade — the prepared earth surface on which a pavement or the ballast of a railroad track is placed or upon which the foundation of a structure is built.
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subgroup — a subordinate group; a division of a group.
- submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superbug — a pathogenic bacterium that has developed immunity to antibiotics, or an insect that has developed immunity to insecticides.
- superego — the part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behavior.
- supergun — any extremely powerful gun
- surgeful — full of surge
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- unsprung — not equipped with a spring or springs
- unstring — to deprive of strings: to unstring a violin.