10-letter words containing t, u, g
- outscoring — Present participle of outscore.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- outsetting — the act of public proclamation
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- outsinging — Present participle of outsing.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- outweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of outweigh.
- outwitting — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
- outworking — to work harder, better, or faster than.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- 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.
- pellet gun — a gun that fires imitation bullets, esp such a gun used as a toy
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- pinguitude — fatness
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- 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
- plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- profulgent — radiant
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protologue — the original description of a species, genus, etc.
- protruding — to project.
- pugilistic — a person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- 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.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- 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.
- quietening — Present participle of quieten.
- 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.
- recounting — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recruiting — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- 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.