10-letter words containing r, u, d, n
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groundprox — a device that alerts a pilot of a passenger aircraft when the altitude falls below a certain level
- groundsels — Plural form of groundsel.
- groundside — the part of an airport not used for aircraft takeoffs and landings.
- groundsill — the lowermost sill of a framed structure, especially one lying close to the ground.
- groundsman — A male groundskeeper.
- groundsmen — Plural form of groundsman.
- groundward — Towards the ground.
- groundwood — wood that has been ground for making into pulp.
- groundwork — foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.
- groundworm — (dialectal, dated) earthworm.
- grudgingly — displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness: grudging acceptance of the victory of an opponent.
- grund mail — payment for the right to be buried
- guaranteed — a promise or assurance, especially one in writing, that something is of specified quality, content, benefit, etc., or that it will perform satisfactorily for a given length of time: a money-back guarantee.
- guarantied — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guard band — an unassigned range of radio frequencies either just above or just below the band of frequencies required for the signal transmitted by a broadcasting station. It helps to prevent interference in receivers between signals from different stations.
- guard ring — a ring worn tightly in front of another ring to prevent the latter from slipping off the finger.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- gullstrand — Allvar [ahl-vahr] /ˈɑl vɑr/ (Show IPA), 1862–1930, Swedish oculist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1911.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hard-bound — hardcover
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- 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.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- hundredths — Plural form of hundredth.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- imprudence — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- incumbered — encumber.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indecorous — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- indentured — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- indentures — Plural form of indenture.
- indextrous — not possessing dexterity
- induration — the act of indurating.
- indurative — the act of indurating.
- industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- industries — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.