9-letter words containing s, u, r, g
- margulies — Donald. born 1955, US playwright; plays include The Loman Family Picnic (1989) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (1999)
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- merengues — Plural form of merengue.
- meringues — Plural form of meringue.
- merseburg — a city in E Germany, on the Saale River, in Saxony-Anhalt: residence of the dukes of Saxe-Merseburg (1656–1738); chemical industry. Pop: 35 358 (2003 est)
- misguider — One who misguides.
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mudguards — Plural form of mudguard.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- ngultrums — Plural form of ngultrum.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- nurseling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nurslings — Plural form of nursling.
- nut grass — either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- obscuring — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- oppugners — Plural form of oppugner.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outspring — to spring out
- pasturage — pasture.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- regisseur — someone responsible for the staging of a theatrical work, especially of a ballet; director.
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- resurgent — rising or tending to rise again; reviving; renascent.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
- rose-slug — the larva of any of several sawflies, especially Endelomyia aethiops or Cladius isomerus, that skeletonize the foliage of roses.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- rushingly — to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sargassum — any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, widely distributed in the warmer waters of the globe, as S. bacciferum, the common gulfweed.