9-letter words containing t, u, n, g
- gargantua — an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- gauntlets — Plural form of gauntlet.
- gauntness — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- gaurantee — Misspelling of guarantee.
- genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- gesturing — Present participle of gesture.
- get round — cajole
- gluconate — a salt of gluconic acid
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- glutenous — like gluten.
- glutinant — a nematocyst that discharges a thread covered with a sticky secretion.
- glutinous — of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.
- gluttoned — Simple past tense and past participle of glutton.
- gnu style — (programming) An obsolete and deprecated source code indent style used throughout GNU Emacs and the Free Software Foundation code, and just about nowhere else. Indents are always four spaces per level, with "" and "" halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond) { } (2014-09-24)
- good turn — a helpful and friendly act; good deed; favour
- grandaunt — an aunt of one's father or mother; great-aunt.
- granulate — to form into granules or grains.
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- gratulant — expressing gratification; congratulatory.
- grind out — extinguish: a cigarette, etc.
- groundnut — Also called wild bean, potato bean. a twining, North American plant, Apios americana (or A. tuberosa), of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant brownish flowers and an edible tuber.
- groundout — a play in which a batter is put out at first base after hitting a ground ball to the infield.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- gruntling — A young hog or pig.
- gruntwork — Alternative spelling of grunt work.
- guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- guarantee — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guarantor — a person, group, system, etc., that guarantees.
- gum plant — gumweed.
- gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
- gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
- gunfights — Plural form of gunfight.
- gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
- gunsights — Plural form of gunsight.
- gunsmiths — Plural form of gunsmith.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- gustation — the act of tasting.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- guttation — a process in which water in liquid form is given off by plants.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hui-tsung — 1082–1135, emperor of China 1101–26: painter and patron of art.