9-letter words containing g, u, r
- gumsucker — a native-born Australian
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gunrunner — A person engaged in the illegal sale or importing of firearms.
- guo moruo — 1892–1978, Chinese intellectual, writer, poet, scholar, and government official.
- gurdjieff — George Ivanovich (George S. Georgiades) 1872–1949, Armenian-born spiritual leader and author.
- gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- guttiform — shaped like a drop.
- 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.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- 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.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- humouring — humor.
- hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hungerful — hungry
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.
- in vigour — in legal force
- inaugural — of or relating to an inauguration: Harding's inaugural address.