6-letter words containing u, g, a
- bugaku — a classical Japanese dance of Chinese origin, originally designed as entertainment for the imperial palace: performed exclusively by men, who serve as both dancers and musicians.
- buggan — an evil spirit
- bugsha — buqsha.
- bulgar — a member of a group of non-Indo-European peoples that settled in SE Europe in the late 7th century ad and adopted the language and culture of their Slavonic subjects
- bumbag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- burgas — a port in SE Bulgaria on an inlet of the Black Sea. Pop: 177 000 (2005 est)
- caguas — city in EC Puerto Rico: pop. 141,000
- cangue — (formerly in China) a large wooden collar worn by petty criminals as a punishment
- catgut — a strong cord made from the dried intestines of sheep and other animals that is used for stringing certain musical instruments and sports rackets, and, when sterilized, as surgical ligatures
- caught — Caught is the past tense and past participle of catch.
- cayuga — a member of a Native American people (one of the Iroquois peoples) formerly living around Cayuga Lake
- chagul — a bag made of goatskin: used in India for carrying water.
- cougan — a rowdy person, esp one who drinks large quantities of alcohol
- cougar — A cougar is a wild member of the cat family. Cougars have brownish-grey fur and live in mountain regions of North and South America.
- cubage — cubic content or volume
- curagh — a coracle.
- dadgum — (US, euphemistic) goddamned.
- durgan — (dialectal) A dwarf.
- feague — To decorate or improve in appearance through artificial means.
- figura — (in literary theory) a person or thing representing or symbolizing a fact or ideal.
- frugal — 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.
- fugard — Athol (Harold) born 1932, South African playwright and actor.
- fugato — a section of a composition that is in fugal style but does not constitute a real fugue.
- fugazi — (slang, chiefly military, especially during the Vietnam era) Fucked up; broken, damaged beyond repair.
- fugazy — Misspelling of fugazi.
- fumage — a tax payable to the king for each hearth in every house owned by a person not exempt from church taxes and poor taxes.
- fungal — fungous.
- fungia — Any member of the coral genus Fungia.
- gagaku — the select group of Japanese men who, as both dancers and musicians, perform the bugaku.
- galium — (botany) Any of the genus Galium of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, including the bedstraws.
- gallup — George Horace, 1901–84, U.S. statistician.
- gallus — bold; daring; reckless
- galuth — the forced exile of Jews, especially from countries where they were most persecuted.
- gangue — rock or mineral matter of no value occurring with the metallic ore in a vein or deposit.
- garous — Relating to, or resembling, garum.
- garuda — A large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.Garuda is the son of Kadruva.
- gas up — Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- gateau — a cake, especially a very light sponge cake with a rich icing or filling.
- gauche — lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.
- gaucho — a native cowboy of the South American pampas, usually of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry.
- gauded — Simple past tense and past participle of gaud.
- gaufer — a waffle
- gauged — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gauger — a person or thing that gauges.
- gauges — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gaulle — Charles André Joseph Marie [chahrlz ahn-drey joh-zuh f muh-ree;; French sharl ahn-drey zhoh-zef ma-ree] /tʃɑrlz ˈɑn dreɪ ˈdʒoʊ zəf məˈri;; French ʃarl ɑ̃ˈdreɪ ʒoʊˈzɛf maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1890–1970, French general and statesman: president 1959–69.
- gaults — Plural form of gault.
- gauzed — Simple past tense and past participle of gauze.
- gauzes — Plural form of gauze.
- gawpus — a clumsy or silly person