9-letter words containing t, a, u, g
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- objurgate — to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- oppugnant — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outgallop — to gallop faster than or overtake by galloping
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- outgassed — Simple past tense and past participle of outgas.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outmanage — (transitive) To surpass in management; to manage better than.
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing
- 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.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- 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.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- sitatunga — an antelope, Tragelaphus spekei, inhabiting marshy regions of central and eastern Africa.
- situtunga — an antelope, Tragelaphus spekei, inhabiting marshy regions of central and eastern Africa.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- squatting — occupying a property illegally
- stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- stuttgart — a state in SW Germany: formed 1951. 13,800 sq. mi. (35,740 sq. km). Capital: Stuttgart.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.