10-letter words containing d, r, u
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- guide word — catchword (def 2).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- gullstrand — Allvar [ahl-vahr] /ˈɑl vɑr/ (Show IPA), 1862–1930, Swedish oculist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1911.
- gum dammar — dammar (def 1).
- gum digger — a person who digs for fossilized kauri gum in a gum field
- guy friday — a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- hadrosaurs — Plural form of hadrosaur.
- 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).
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- housedress — a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- humidifier — a device for increasing the amount of water vapor in the air of a room or building, consisting of a container for water and a vaporizer.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hundredths — Plural form of hundredth.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydromulch — to spread mulch on (a field, garden, etc.) in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- idée reçue — a generally held opinion or concept
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.
- immeasured — immeasurable
- impictured — painted
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.