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9-letter words containing a, u, r

  • guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
  • guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
  • guerrilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
  • guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
  • guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
  • guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
  • gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
  • gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
  • gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
  • gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
  • gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
  • hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
  • 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.
  • hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
  • hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
  • half-hour — a period of 30 minutes.
  • half-turn — a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
  • hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
  • hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
  • 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
  • hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
  • harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
  • haranguer — One who harangues.
  • harangues — Plural form of harangue.
  • harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
  • 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.
  • harbourer — A person who harbours another.
  • hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
  • hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
  • hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • harmfully — In a harmful manner.
  • harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
  • harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
  • harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
  • harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
  • haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
  • hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
  • haughtier — Comparative form of haughty.
  • hausfraus — Plural form of hausfrau.
  • haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
  • haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
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