9-letter words containing g, r, u
- corrugate — to fold or be folded into alternate furrows and ridges
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- courgette — Courgettes are long thin vegetables with dark green skin.
- courrèges — André (ɑ̃dre). 1923–2016, French couturier: helped to launch unisex fashion in the mid-1960s
- courtling — a fawning or sycophantic member of a royal court
- crataegus — (botany) Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.
- cream jug — a small jug for serving cream
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- crouching — to stoop or bend low.
- crumbling — to break into small fragments or crumbs.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- crunching — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- crusading — campaigning
- culturgen — One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
- culturing — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- cumbering — Present participle of cumber.
- curettage — the process of using a curette
- curetting — to scrape with a curette.
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- currijong — kurrajong.
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curtsying — Present participle of curtsey.
- curveting — Present participle of curvet.
- cut a rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- deburring — Present participle of deburr.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- demiurges — Plural form of demiurge.
- demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
- demurring — Present participle of demur.
- desargues — Gérard [zhey-rar] /ʒeɪˈrar/ (Show IPA), 1593–1662, French mathematician.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detruding — Present participle of detrude.
- devouring — Present participle of devour.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disguiser — One who, or that which, disguises.
- dog guard — a metal frame used in a car to contain pet dogs
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- doumergue — Gaston [gas-tawn] /gasˈtɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1863–1937, French statesman: president of France 1924–31.
- drag bunt — an in-motion bunt for a base hit usually attempted by a left-handed batter, who starts for first base while trailing the bat to meet the ball, without squaring around, in order to catch the infield by surprise. Compare sacrifice (def 6).
- drag hunt — drag (def 27c).
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragqueen — Alternative form of drag queen.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- dramaturg — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.