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.