9-letter words containing g, r, u, d
- multigrid — involving several grids
- murdering — Present participle of murder.
- muybridge — Eadweard [ed-werd] /ˈɛd wərd/ (Show IPA), (Edward James Muggeridge) 1830–1904, U.S. photographer, born in England: pioneered in photographic studies of animals and humans in motion.
- negritude — the historical, cultural, and social heritage considered common to black people collectively.
- newground — a tract of land recently cleared for cultivation.
- ngerulmud — the capital of Palau (from 2006), in the state of Melekeok on the island of Babelthuap
- nigritude — complete darkness or blackness.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- obtruding — Present participle of obtrude.
- off guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- off-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- oldenburg — Claes (Thure) [klous too r-uh] /klaʊs ˈtʊər ə/ (Show IPA), born 1929, U.S. sculptor, born in Sweden.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outriding — Present participle of outride.
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- quadrigae — Plural form of quadriga.
- radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
- rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
- rat guard — a disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock.
- rearguard — of or relating to a rear guard.
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.
- red guard — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reducting — to reduce.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- reguerdon — a reward
- roadguard — a person assigned to run ahead of a marching formation to stop cross traffic at an intersection.
- rough-dry — to dry (laundry) after washing, without smoothing, ironing, etc.
- roughened — made rough
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- ruggedize — to construct (electronic equipment, cameras, and other delicate instruments) so as to be resistant to shock, vibration, etc.
- safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- soft drug — a drug, usually illicit, that does not produce significant psychological or physical dependence.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- strouding — a woolly material used to make strouds or blankets
- struggled — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- supergood — extremely good
- turgidity — swollen; distended; tumid.
- unbridged — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- uncharged — not charged, especially with electricity; electrically neutral: an uncharged battery; an uncharged particle.
- under age — Someone who is under age is not legally old enough to do something, for example to buy an alcoholic drink.
- under-god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.