7-letter words containing u, g, a
- gauhati — a city in W Assam, in E India, on the Brahmaputra River.
- gaulish — the extinct, Celtic language of ancient Gaul.
- gaulter — a person who digs gault
- gaunter — Comparative form of gaunt.
- gauntly — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- gauntry — gantry.
- gauping — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gautama — Buddha (def 1).
- gauteng — a province of N South Africa; formed in 1994 from part of the former province of Transvaal: service industries, mining, and manufacturing. Capital: Johannesburg. Pop: 12 272 263 (2011 est). Area: 18 810 sq km (7262 sq miles)
- gautier — Théophile [tey-aw-feel] /teɪ ɔˈfil/ (Show IPA), 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic.
- gauzier — Comparative form of gauzy.
- gauzily — In a gauzy manner.
- gauzing — Present participle of gauze.
- gazeful — gazing intently
- gazumps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gazump.
- gear up — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- giaours — Plural form of giaour.
- giauque — William Francis, 1895–1982, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1949.
- gladful — (archaic) Happy, full of joy.
- gladius — a short sword used in ancient Rome by legionaries.
- glamour — the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, especially by a combination of charm and good looks.
- glauco- — bluish-green, silvery, or gray
- glaucus — A genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
- glucans — Plural form of glucan.
- glucina — (obsolete, chemistry) beryllium oxide.
- gluteal — pertaining to the buttock muscles or the buttocks.
- gnu awk — gawk
- gnumacs — /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, Emacs. Used especially in contrast with GOSMACS.
- goburra — The kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae).
- gomulka — Wladyslaw [vlah-di-slahf] /vlɑˈdɪ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1905–82, Polish political leader: First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party 1956–70.
- gopuram — A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
- gouache — a technique of painting with opaque watercolors prepared with gum.
- goulash — Also called Hungarian goulash. a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, with paprika and other seasoning.
- gourami — a large, air-breathing, nest-building, freshwater Asiatic fish, Osphronemus goramy, used for food.
- gournia — a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- gradual — taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little: gradual improvement in health.
- grampus — a cetacean, Grampus griseus, of the dolphin family, widely distributed in northern seas.
- granule — a little grain.
- grassum — a lump sum paid when first taking up a lease, in addition to regular rent
- graunch — Make a crunching or grinding noise.
- graupel — snow pellets.
- gravure — an intaglio process of photomechanical printing, such as photogravure or rotogravure.
- grayout — a temporary impairment of vision due to lack of oxygen
- guajira — a Cuban peasant dance with shifting rhythms.
- guanaco — a wild South American ruminant, Lama guanicoe, of which the llama and alpaca are believed to be domesticated varieties: related to the camels.
- guanase — an enzyme that converts guanine to xanthine by removal of an amino group
- guangxi — autonomous region in S China: 85,097 sq mi (220,400 sq km); pop. 42,530,000; cap. Nanning
- guanine — a purine base, C 5 H 5 N 5 O, that is a fundamental constituent of DNA and RNA, in which it forms base pairs with cytosine. Symbol: G.
- guanyin — Kwan-yin.
- guapore — a river forming part of the boundary between Brazil and Bolivia, flowing NW to the Mamoré River. 950 miles (1530 km) long.