9-letter words containing t, r, u, g
- 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.
- picturing — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- 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.
- put right — rectify
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rebutting — to refute by evidence or argument.
- recutting — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- reducting — to reduce.
- refulgent — shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
- regretful — full of regret; sorrowful because of what is lost, gone, or done.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- requiting — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requoting — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- rerouting — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- 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.
- rethought — the act of reconsidering.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- ring true — sound or seem genuine
- rough out — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rough-cut — cut into small, irregular pieces (contrasted with fine-cut): rough-cut tobacco.
- 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.
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- 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.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- struggler — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- strung up — tense, anxious
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- stuttgart — a state in SW Germany: formed 1951. 13,800 sq. mi. (35,740 sq. km). Capital: Stuttgart.
- 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.
- sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
- sugar-tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.