9-letter words containing u, g, a
- change-up — a temporary shift or variation in a normal routine or regular pattern of activity: Reading a mystery novel has been a real change of pace for me.
- changeful — often changing; inconstant; variable
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- changzhou — a city in E China, in S Jiangsu province, on the Grand Canal: also known as Wutsin until 1949, when the 7th-century name was officially readopted. Pop: 2 085 500 (2004 est)
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- chu kiang — Zhu Jiang.
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cingulate — Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- coagulase — any enzyme that causes coagulation of blood
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- colleague — Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
- comayagua — a city in W central Honduras.
- conjugant — either of a pair of organisms or gametes undergoing conjugation
- conjugate — When pupils or teachers conjugate a verb, they give its different forms in a particular order.
- conjugial — A form of \"conjugal\" used by Swedenborg and his followers, used to distinguish their ideas about marital relations.
- connaught — Connacht
- consulage — a duty paid by merchants for a consul's protection of their goods while abroad
- contagium — the specific virus or other direct cause of any infectious disease
- corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- crataegus — (botany) Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.
- cream jug — a small jug for serving cream
- crusading — campaigning
- curettage — the process of using a curette
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- cut a rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cut glass — Cut glass is glass that has patterns cut into its surface.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- de gaulle — Charles (André Joseph Marie) (ʃarl). 1890–1970, French general and statesman. During World War II, he refused to accept Pétain's armistice with Germany and founded the Free French movement in England (1940). He was head of the provisional governments (1944–46) and, as first president of the Fifth Republic (1959–69), he restored political and economic stability to France
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- decoupage — the art or process of decorating a surface with shapes or illustrations cut from paper, card, etc
- degaussed — Simple past tense and past participle of degauss.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- degausses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degauss.
- degustate — to taste or savor carefully or appreciatively.
- demagogue — If you say that someone such as a politician is a demagogue you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure