10-letter words containing g, r, a, d, u
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- iron guard — a Romanian fascist party that was extremely nationalistic and anti-Semitic, eliminated after World War II.
- jaguarondi — Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
- jaguarundi — a long-bodied and long-tailed tropical wildcat, Felis yagouaroundi, having a brownish-gray coat and a second color phase of reddish-brown: now reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- jormungand — Midgard serpent.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- la guardia — Fiorello H(enry) [fee-uh-rel-oh] /ˌfi əˈrɛl oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1947, U.S. lawyer, political reformer, and government administrator: mayor of New York City 1933–45.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- mouthguard — A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of teeth, which is usually made of plastic. They may be used to protect aginst injury during sport or fighting, or may serve a medical purpose.
- multigrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
- on draught — Beer that is on draught is kept in and served from a barrel rather than a bottle.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- rear guard — a military detachment to protect the rear of a main force or body
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sluggardly — like or befitting a sluggard; slothful; lazy.
- smart drug — a drug or other substance that is claimed to enhance memory, concentration, or other mental functions.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sulfa drug — any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic rather than a bacteriocidal effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
- unabridged — not abridged or shortened, as a book.
- unadhering — to stay attached; stick fast; cleave; cling (usually followed by to): The mud adhered to his shoes.
- unadmiring — not admiring or esteeming
- unarranged — not arranged in order
- under-hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- underagent — a secondary agent
- underglaze — (of a color or decoration) applied to a piece before the piece is glazed.
- underguard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.