9-letter words containing u, p, g, a
- navy plug — a strong, dark tobacco in plug form.
- oppugnant — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- outgallop — to gallop faster than or overtake by galloping
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paranagua — a seaport in S Brazil.
- pasturage — pasture.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pedagogue — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plug away — keep working on sth
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- 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.
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- 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
- sugar pea — snow pea.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tupungato — a mountain between Argentina and Chile, in the Andes. About 22,310 feet (6800 meters).