10-letter words containing g, r, u, d
- 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.
- loundering — a beating
- low ground — Often, low grounds. Southern U.S. bottom (def 4).
- lug-rigged — rigged with a lugsail or lugsails.
- maundering — A rambling or pointless discourse.
- middelburg — a province in the SW Netherlands, consisting largely of islands. 1041 sq. mi. (2695 sq. km). Capital: Middelburg.
- mouldering — to turn to dust by natural decay; crumble; disintegrate; waste away: a house that had been left to molder.
- 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.
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- multigrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- mundugumor — a member of a Papuan people of Papua New Guinea.
- nose guard — middle guard.
- noseguards — Plural form of noseguard.
- objurgated — Simple past tense and past participle of objurgate.
- ogdensburg — a city in NE New York, on the St. Lawrence River.
- on draught — Beer that is on draught is kept in and served from a barrel rather than a bottle.
- outredding — the act of redeeming land or goods
- overbudget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overground — In an overground transport system, vehicles run on the surface of the ground, rather than below it.
- 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.
- prejudging — a preliminary round of judging, as in a contest where a certain number or percentage of the entrants are eliminated before the final judging.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- protruding — to project.
- pundigrion — a pun
- 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
- rebuilding — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- red grouse — a grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus, of the British Isles, a subspecies of willow ptarmigan lacking white winter plumage.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- red-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- rescue dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers
- resounding — making an echoing sound: a resounding thud.
- ridiculing — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- ring round — If you ring round or ring around, you phone several people, usually when you are trying to organize something or to find some information.
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- ruggedised — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- ruggedness — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- 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.