9-letter words containing g, u, r, a
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- guevarist — a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.
- 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.
- guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gutturals — Plural form of guttural.
- gyrovague — a vagrant monk who wandered from one monastery to another.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
- haughtier — Comparative form of haughty.
- headguard — a padded helmet worn to protect the head in contact sports such as rugby and boxing
- hearthrug — A rug laid in front of a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- indraught — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- jargonaut — Someone who uses jargon excessively.
- jug-eared — having ears (jug ears) that stick out from the head resembling the way that a handle sticks out from a jug
- kauri gum — a hard resin obtained from the bark of the kauri or found, sometimes in masses of as much as 100 pounds (45 kg), in the soil where the tree has grown: used chiefly in making varnish.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.