9-letter words containing a, d, u, s
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guideways — Plural form of guideway.
- guildsman — a member of a guild.
- gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
- 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.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- indusiate — having an indusium.
- infandous — (obsolete) Extremely odious.
- insulated — to cover, line, or separate with a material that prevents or reduces the passage, transfer, or leakage of heat, electricity, or sound: to insulate an electric wire with a rubber sheath; to insulate a coat with down.
- inundates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inundate.
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- jacquards — Plural form of jacquard.
- jaundices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaundice.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- ladislaus — Saint, c1040–95, king of Hungary 1077–95.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lassitude — weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor.
- latitudes — Plural form of latitude.
- laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- lotusland — A place or state concerned solely with, or providing, idle pleasure and luxury.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.