9-letter words containing t, u, n, g
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- plug into — If you plug into a computer system, you are able to use it or see the information stored on it.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- purgation — the act of purging.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- 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.
- 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.
- ring true — sound or seem genuine
- scuttling — to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry.
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
- singultus — a hiccup.
- 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.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- slungshot — a weight attached to the end of a cord and used as a weapon
- squatting — occupying a property illegally
- squinting — designating a modifier, as an adverb, that can be interpreted as modifying either the preceding or the following part of the construction in which it appears (Ex.: often in “those who lie often are found out”); also, designating the construction itself
- stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stingbull — Trachinus draco, a species of fish with venomous spines on their dorsal fins that are capable of wounding humans
- stink bug — any of numerous broad, flat bugs of the family Pentatomidae, that emit a disagreeable odor.
- stoughton — a city in E Massachusetts.
- 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
- strung up — tense, anxious
- strutting — walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- summiting — the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tegmentum — one of the hard protective sometimes hairy or resinous specialized leaves surrounding the buds of certain plants
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- ten gurus — the ten leaders of the Sikh religion from its founder Guru Nanak to Guru Govind Singh, who ended the line of gurus by calling on Sikhs to rely on the holy text of the Granth to guide them
- teniafuge — an agent or medicine for expelling tapeworms from the body.
- thingummy — You refer to something or someone as thingummy, thingummyjig or thingummybob when you do not know or cannot be bothered to use the proper word or name for them.
- thoughten — having a particular kind of thought or opinion