9-letter words containing a, d, o, u
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- groundman — a groundsman
- guangdong — a province in SE China. 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). Capital: Canton.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guard dog — a large, aggressive dog, as a German shepherd or Doberman pinscher, trained to guard persons or property and often to attack or restrain on command.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- humanhood — the state or character of being human
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- iguanodon — a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet (4.5 to 9 meters) and walked erect on its hind feet.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- infandous — (obsolete) Extremely odious.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- judicator — a person who acts as judge or sits in judgment.
- ladle out — If you ladle out something such as money, information, or advice, you give it freely and in large quantities.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- llandudno — a town and resort in NW Wales, in Conwy county borough on the Irish Sea. Pop: 14 872 (2001)
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- loculated — Locular.
- lotusland — A place or state concerned solely with, or providing, idle pleasure and luxury.
- mad about — passionate about
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- maxed out — maximum.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- meadowrue — A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- modula-2* — An extension of Modula-2 by M. Philippsen <[email protected]> of the University of Karlsruhe. It uses a superset of data parallelism, allowing both synchronous and asynchronous programs, both SIMD and MIMD. Parallelism may be nested to any depth. There are version for MasPar and a simulator for the SPARC.
- modula-3* — Incorporation of Modula-2* ideas into Modula-3.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.
- modularly — In a modular manner.
- modulated — Simple past tense and past participle of modulate.
- modulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modulate.