8-letter words containing u, g, a
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courages — the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.
- curating — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- curraghs — Plural form of curragh.
- cutglass — Made of cut glass.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- cygnus a — a strong radio source in the constellation Cygnus associated with a distant peculiar galaxy.
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- disusage — Gradual cessation of use or custom; disuse.
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- dunaburg — German name of Daugavpils.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dungheap — pile of dung
- duo-tang — a type of folder with flexible metal fasteners
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- dust bag — the bag used in some models of vacuum cleaner for the collection of dust
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- equaling — Present participle of equal.
- equating — Present participle of equate.
- equipage — The equipment for a particular purpose.
- euglenas — Plural form of euglena.
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- fall guy — an easy victim.
- farragut — David Glasgow, 1801–70, U.S. admiral: won the battles of New Orleans and Mobile Bay for the Union in the U.S. Civil War.
- fatigued — of or relating to fatigues or any clothing made to resemble them: The guerrilla band wore fatigue pants and field jackets. She brought fatigue shorts to wear on the hike.
- fatigues — weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- faulting — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- feldgrau — the shade of grey worn by German soldiers in World War II
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- figurate — Forming a figure.
- flag out — to register (a commercial vehicle) in a country other than the one in which it operates, usually in order to take advantage of favourable rates of taxation
- flashgun — a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.
- flat bug — any of numerous flattened bugs of the family Aradidae, inhabiting the underside of bark and feeding on fungi.
- flue gas — the smoke in the uptake of a boiler fire: it consists mainly of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen
- fluxgate — (physics) Any of several devices that use soft iron cores surrounded by coils of wire that generate a pattern of induced currents when it moves relative to an external magnetic field.
- fougasse — a type of bread made with olive oil
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- frautage — cargo
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fugacity — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.