9-letter words containing u, g, a
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pupillage — the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- quadrigae — Plural form of quadriga.
- quagmires — Plural form of quagmire.
- quakingly — In a quaking fashion, especially with fear.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quarrying — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quasi-gay — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rearguard — of or relating to a rear guard.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red guard — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- regularly — at regular times or intervals.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- roughback — any of several large American flatfishes having rough skin, especially Hippoglossoides platessoides, a species of plaice.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rub along — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rummaging — to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- run along — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- sargassum — any seaweed of the genus Sargassum, widely distributed in the warmer waters of the globe, as S. bacciferum, the common gulfweed.
- sauvignon — a small blue-black grape grown primarily in the Médoc region of Bordeaux, in SW France, and highly prized in winemaking.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- sea gauge — an automatic sounding device registering the depth to which it is lowered.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg