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9-letter words containing g, u, a

  • guacamole — a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.
  • guamanian — an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group; U.S. naval station. 206 sq. mi. (535 sq. km). Capital: Agaña. Abbreviation: GU (for use with zip code).
  • guanabana — soursop.
  • guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
  • guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
  • guanazolo — a synthetic form of guanine that is used to inhibit the growth of tumours
  • guangdong — a province in SE China. 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). Capital: Canton.
  • guangzhou — Canton.
  • guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
  • guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
  • guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
  • guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
  • guarantee — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
  • guarantor — a person, group, system, etc., that guarantees.
  • 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.
  • guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
  • guardafui — Cape, a cape at the E extremity of Africa.
  • guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
  • guardians — Plural form of guardian.
  • guardless — Defenceless.
  • guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
  • guardrail — Also, guardrailing. a protective railing, as along a road or stairway.
  • guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
  • guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
  • guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
  • guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
  • guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
  • guatemala — a republic in N Central America. 42,042 sq. mi. (108,889 sq. km).
  • guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
  • guayaquil — a seaport in W Ecuador, on the Gulf of Guayaquil.
  • guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
  • guerillas — Plural form of guerilla.
  • guerrilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
  • guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
  • guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
  • guffawing — Present participle of guffaw.
  • guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
  • guideways — Plural form of guideway.
  • guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
  • guildsman — a member of a guild.
  • guillaume — Charles Édouard [French sharl ey-dwar] /French ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, Swiss physicist: Nobel Prize 1920.
  • guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
  • guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
  • guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
  • gum plant — gumweed.
  • gummatous — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
  • gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
  • gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
  • gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
  • gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
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