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10-letter words containing d, u, r, a

  • granduncle — an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.
  • granulated — Simple past tense and past participle of granulate.
  • gratitudes — Plural form of gratitude.
  • graubunden — German name of Grisons.
  • ground pea — peanut.
  • ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
  • groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
  • groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
  • 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.
  • grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
  • 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.
  • guarantied — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
  • 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 cell — either of two specialized epidermal cells that flank the pore of a stoma and usually cause it to open and close.
  • guard duty — a military assignment involving watching over or protecting a person or place or supervising prisoners.
  • guard hair — the long, usually stiff outer hair protecting the underfur in certain animals.
  • guard ring — a ring worn tightly in front of another ring to prevent the latter from slipping off the finger.
  • guardhouse — a building used for housing military personnel on guard duty.
  • guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
  • guardrails — Plural form of guardrail.
  • guardrooms — Plural form of guardroom.
  • guide rail — a track or rail designed to control the movement of an object, as a door or window.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
  • home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
  • 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.
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