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9-letter words containing a, r, u, n

  • granulose — granular.
  • granulous — consisting of grains or granules
  • gratulant — expressing gratification; congratulatory.
  • grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
  • grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
  • groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
  • groundman — a groundsman
  • grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
  • guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
  • guarantee — 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.
  • guarantor — a person, group, system, etc., that guarantees.
  • guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
  • guardians — Plural form of guardian.
  • guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
  • guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
  • hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
  • half-turn — a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
  • hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
  • handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
  • handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
  • harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
  • haranguer — One who harangues.
  • harangues — Plural form of harangue.
  • hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
  • hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
  • harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
  • harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
  • harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
  • haut-rhin — a department in NE France. 1354 sq. mi. (3505 sq. km). Capital: Colmar.
  • heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
  • herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
  • hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
  • 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.
  • honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
  • hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
  • huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
  • humanizer — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
  • hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
  • hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
  • hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
  • hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
  • hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
  • husbander — A person who husbands resources.
  • husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
  • hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
  • ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
  • iminourea — guanidine.
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