10-letter words containing r, u, i
- guarantied — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guaranties — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- guard hair — the long, usually stiff outer hair protecting the underfur in certain animals.
- guard ring — a ring worn tightly in front of another ring to prevent the latter from slipping off the finger.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- guardrails — Plural form of guardrail.
- guarnerius — a violin made by Guarneri or by a member of his family.
- guerrillas — Plural form of guerrilla.
- guide rail — a track or rail designed to control the movement of an object, as a door or window.
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- guide word — catchword (def 2).
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- guilt-trip — Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. See also guilt (def 4).
- guitarfish — any sharklike ray of the family Rhinobatidae, of warm seas, resembling a guitar in shape.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- haircutter — A barber.
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- 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.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- 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.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- heraclitus — ("the Obscure") c540–c470 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- heuristics — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- high court — Supreme Court.
- 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.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- hippuritic — of, relating to, or containing hippurites
- hirtellous — minutely hirsute.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- horologium — a building supporting or containing a timepiece, as a clock tower.