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10-letter words containing t, a, u, g

  • outmanning — Present participle of outman.
  • outmigrant — A person who has migrated from one place to another, especially within a country.
  • outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
  • outrageous — of the nature of or involving gross injury or wrong: an outrageous slander.
  • outraising — Present participle of outraise.
  • outranging — Present participle of outrange.
  • outranking — Present participle of outrank.
  • outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
  • outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
  • overtaught — taught to excess
  • page fault — (memory management)   In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
  • pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  • ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
  • promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
  • quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
  • quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
  • quantising — Present participle of quantise.
  • quarterage — the act of providing troops with living accommodations.
  • quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
  • rating nut — a nut that screws onto the lower end of the rod of a clock pendulum for raising or lowering the weight to alter the rate of the clock.
  • reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
  • regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
  • regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • reregulate — to regulate again or anew
  • rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • sanguinity — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
  • satya yuga — the first and best of the four Yugas.
  • sauntering — to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll: sauntering through the woods.
  • scattergun — A scattergun is a gun that fires a lot of small metal balls at the same time.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
  • sluicegate — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
  • smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
  • soundstage — a soundproof room or building in which cinematic films are shot
  • south gate — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • squeteague — an Atlantic food fish, Cynoscion regalis, of the croaker family.
  • staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
  • staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
  • strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
  • strassburg — a city in NE France, on the Rhine: the chief French inland port; under German rule (1870–1918); university (1567); seat of the Council of Europe and of the European Parliament. Pop: 264 115 (1999)
  • subglottal — of or relating to the glottis.
  • subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
  • subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
  • suffragist — an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.
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