10-letter words containing g, u, e, r, d
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- interjudge — Between judges.
- krugerrand — (sometimes lowercase) a one-ounce gold coin of the Republic of South Africa, equal to 25 rand: first issued in 1967.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- loundering — a beating
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- 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.
- 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.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- sludgeworm — a small freshwater worm, Tubifex tubifex, often inhabiting sewage sludge and the muddy bottoms of lakes, rivers, and pools.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
- take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
- the dergue — the socialist ruling body of Ethiopia, established in 1974