10-letter words containing g, u, i
- guide word — catchword (def 2).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- guidelines — A general rule, principle, or piece of advice.
- guideposts — Plural form of guidepost.
- guidwillie — generous or cordial
- guildhalls — Plural form of guildhall.
- guilefully — In a guileful manner.
- guillemets — Plural form of guillemet.
- guillemots — Plural form of guillemot.
- guilloches — Plural form of guilloche.
- guillotine — a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
- guilt-trip — Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. See also guilt (def 4).
- guiltiness — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- guinea hen — the female of the guinea fowl.
- guinea pig — a short-eared, tailless rodent of the genus Cavia, usually white, black, and tawny, commonly regarded as the domesticated form of one of the South American wild species of cavy: often used in scientific experiments or kept as a pet.
- guineafowl — Alternative spelling of guinea fowl.
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
- gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
- gum digger — a person who digs for fossilized kauri gum in a gum field
- gum guaiac — guaiac.
- gumshoeing — Present participle of gumshoe.
- gun-toting — carrying a gun, especially a pistol.
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- gunrunning — the smuggling of guns or other ammunition into a country.
- gunslinger — Informal. gunfighter.
- gunter rig — a type of gaffing in which the gaff is hoisted parallel to the mast
- gussied up — dressed in a showy way
- gustavus i — (Gustavus Vasa) 1496–1560, king of Sweden 1523–60.
- guy friday — a man who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gymnasiums — Plural form of gymnasium.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haranguing — Present participle of harangue.
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harrisburg — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- haughtiest — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hiccupping — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- high court — Supreme Court.
- high-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively high number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- horologium — a building supporting or containing a timepiece, as a clock tower.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist