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9-letter words containing u, g, a

  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • signature — a person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.
  • singulary — (of an operator) monadic
  • 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.
  • slanguage — slang; a vocabulary of slang.
  • slangular — relating to slang
  • slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
  • southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.
  • spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
  • sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
  • spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
  • spur gall — a hairless and indurated area or gall on the side of a horse, caused by the irritation of a spur.
  • spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.
  • spur-gall — to scrape, rub or injure (a horse) with the spur when riding
  • squalling — the act or sound of squalling: The baby's squall was heard next door.
  • square go — a fair fight between two individuals
  • squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
  • squatting — occupying a property illegally
  • squawking — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
  • stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
  • staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
  • stegosaur — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Stegosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a heavy, bony armor and a row of bony plates along its back, and growing to a length of 20 to 40 feet (6–12 meters).
  • strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
  • stuttgart — a state in SW Germany: formed 1951. 13,800 sq. mi. (35,740 sq. km). Capital: Stuttgart.
  • subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
  • subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
  • subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
  • subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
  • suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
  • sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
  • sugar bag — a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods
  • sugar gum — a small eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus cladocalyx, having smooth bark and barrel-shaped fruits and grown for timber and ornament. It has sweet-tasting leaves which are often eaten by livestock
  • sugar pea — snow pea.
  • sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
  • sugar tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
  • sugar-tit — a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
  • sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
  • sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
  • sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
  • sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • sugarless — having no sugar; specif., prepared with synthetic sweeteners
  • sugarloaf — a large, usually conical loaf or mass of hard refined sugar: the common form of household sugar until the mid-19th century.
  • sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
  • sung mass — a Mass in which parts of the proper and the ordinary are sung rather than recited; missa cantata.
  • sungazing — the practice of staring directly at the sun at sunset or sunrise, esp in the belief that doing so allows one to survive without eating food
  • sungkiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
  • super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
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