10-letter words containing g, u, r, a
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paraguayan — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- prayer rug — a small rug upon which a Muslim kneels and prostrates himself during his devotions.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- quackgrass — A species of grass, Elymus repens.
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quarterage — the act of providing troops with living accommodations.
- quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- rain gauge — an instrument for measuring rainfall.
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rating nut — a nut that screws onto the lower end of the rod of a clock pendulum for raising or lowering the weight to alter the rate of the clock.
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- rear guard — a military detachment to protect the rear of a main force or body
- reassuring — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- red guards — a member of a Chinese Communist youth movement in the late 1960s, committed to the militant support of Mao Zedong.
- reguardant — (of a beast) looking backward: a stag regardant.
- regularise — to make regular.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- regularize — to make regular.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- regulatory — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- reregulate — to regulate again or anew
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- ring gauge — ring1 (def 21).
- rogue male — a conventionally masculine man who is a cold-hearted loner
- rogue wave — a random, enormous ocean wave that sometimes travels at an angle to prevailing seas.
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- ruby glass — glass having a red color resulting from the addition of gold, copper, or selenium to the batch.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment