10-letter words containing a, r, u, n
- groundmass — the crystalline, granular, or glassy base or matrix of a porphyritic or other igneous rock, in which the more prominent crystals are embedded.
- groundsman — A male groundskeeper.
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- grund mail — payment for the right to be buried
- guaranteed — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guaranteer — One who guarantees.
- guarantees — Plural form of guarantee.
- guarantied — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guaranties — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guarantors — Plural form of guarantor.
- guard band — an unassigned range of radio frequencies either just above or just below the band of frequencies required for the signal transmitted by a broadcasting station. It helps to prevent interference in receivers between signals from different stations.
- guard ring — a ring worn tightly in front of another ring to prevent the latter from slipping off the finger.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- guarnerius — a violin made by Guarneri or by a member of his family.
- gubernator — a governor
- gujranwala — a city in NE Pakistan.
- gullstrand — Allvar [ahl-vahr] /ˈɑl vɑr/ (Show IPA), 1862–1930, Swedish oculist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1911.
- gun barrel — firearm: tube-shaped part
- gun camera — an aircraft-mounted motion-picture camera recording the firing of all weapons on the gun-target line of the pilot.
- guru nanak — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- haranguing — Present participle of harangue.
- harbouring — 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.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- harthacnut — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexangular — having six angles.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- human race — humanity, humans as a species
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.