5-letter words containing u, g
- hugel — Baron Friedrich von, 1852–1925, English theologian and writer.
- huger — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- huggy — Tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.
- hugin — one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- hugli — a river in NE India, in W Bengal: the westernmost channel by which the Ganges enters the Bay of Bengal. 160 miles (258 km) long.
- iburg — A program by Christopher W. Fraser <[email protected]>, David R. Hanson <[email protected]> and Todd A. Proebsting <[email protected]> that generates a fast tree parser. Iburg is compatible with Burg. Both programs accept a cost-augmented tree grammar and emit a C program that discovers an optimal parse of trees in the language described by the grammar. They have been used to construct fast optimal instruction selectors for use in code generation. Burg uses BURS. Iburg's matchers do dynamic programming at compile time.
- iglau — Jihlava.
- ilgwu — International Ladies Garment Workers Union
- irgun — a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
- jougs — an iron ring, fastened by a chain to a wall, post, or tree, in which an offender was held by the neck: common in Scotland from the 16th to 18th century
- judge — Alan L(aVern) born 1932, U.S. astronaut.
- judgy — (informal) Inclined to make judgments; judgmental.
- jugal — of or relating to the cheek or the cheekbone.
- juger — A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.
- jugum — the posterior basal area or lobe in the forewing of certain insects, sometimes serving to couple the forewings and hind wings in flight.
- kagus — Plural form of kagu.
- kingu — (in Akkadian myth) a son of Apsu and Tiamat whose blood Ea and Marduk used in creating the human race.
- kluge — a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.
- kugel — a baked casserole resembling a soufflé or pudding.
- kutgw — (chat) Keep up the good work.
- laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- logue — Denoting discourse of a specified type.
- lough — a lake.
- lugar — Richard G(reen) born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1977–2013.
- luged — Simple past tense and past participle of luge.
- luger — Someone who competes in the luge.
- luges — Plural form of luge.
- luing — one of a breed of beef cattle developed on Luing Island off Scotland by interbreeding Shorthorn bulls and purebred West Highland cows.
- lunge — a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- lungi — a cloth used as a turban, scarf, sarong, etc., in India, Pakistan, and Burma.
- lungo — An espresso drink made with more hot water than normal.
- lungs — either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- lurgi — Alternative spelling of lurgy.
- lurgy — (British, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase
- magus — (sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- mangu — Mashed plantain.
- mogul — any of the Mongol conquerors of India who established an empire that lasted from 1526 to 1857, but held only nominal power after 1803. See also Great Mogul.
- mongu — a city in and headquarters of Western Province, W Zambia.
- mudge — a movement or motion
- mugga — an Australian eucalyptus tree with dark bark and pink flowers, Eucalyptus sideroxylon
- muggy — (of the atmosphere, weather, etc.) oppressively humid; damp and close.
- mugil — (zoology) Any fish of the genus Mugil of mugilid mullets.
- mulga — an Australian shrub or small tree, Acacia aneura, forming dense growths in some areas and having foliage used as forage for livestock.
- munga — (obsolete) The bonnet monkey.
- munge — (transitive, computing) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner.
- mungo — a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- murgh — (in Indian cookery) chicken.
- negus — a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- nguni — a member of a group of culturally and linguistically related peoples of southern and eastern Africa, including the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swazi.
- nudge — to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.