9-letter words containing g, r, o, u
- guard dog — a large, aggressive dog, as a German shepherd or Doberman pinscher, trained to guard persons or property and often to attack or restrain on command.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- guesswork — work or procedure based on or consisting of the making of guesses or conjectures.
- guestroom — a room for the lodging of guests.
- guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
- guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- guo moruo — 1892–1978, Chinese intellectual, writer, poet, scholar, and government official.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- guttiform — shaped like a drop.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- humouring — humor.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- in vigour — in legal force
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- integrous — (rare) Having or characterized by integrity.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- irriguous — well-watered, as land.
- jargonaut — Someone who uses jargon excessively.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kurrajong — an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton populneus, having showy yellowish-white, bell-shaped flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- labouring — (British, Canada) present participle of labour.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- liquoring — Present participle of liquor.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- louisburg — a seaport on SE Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, in SE Canada: French fortress captured by British 1745, 1758.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- māori bug — a large shining black wingless cockroach of New Zealand, Platyzosteria novae-zelandiae
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- midground — The point between foreground and background in an image.
- moro gulf — a gulf of the Celebes Sea on the SW side of Mindanao, in the Philippines.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- mu-prolog — (language) Prolog with "wait" declarations for coroutining, developed by L. Naish of the Univeristy of Melbourne in 1982.
- mudlogger — a person in the oil industry who checks the mud for traces of oil or gas
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- neuroglia — a class of cells in the brain and spinal cord that form a supporting structure for the neurons and provide them with insulation.