9-letter words containing r, u, n, d, a
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- indeavour — Archaic form of endeavour.
- indraught — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- indurated — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- irukandji — a tiny but highly venomous Australian jellyfish
- isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
- jutlander — a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- laundered — Simple past tense and past participle of launder.
- launderer — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- lunar day — a division of time that is equal to the elapsed time between two consecutive returns of the same terrestrial meridian to the moon.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- maundered — Simple past tense and past participle of maunder.
- maunderer — A babbler, a mumbler, one who speaks incessantly.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- naturedly — (in combinations) With a certain nature, in a certain manner.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- numerated — to represent numbers by symbols.
- nursemaid — Also called nurserymaid. a woman or girl employed to care for a child or several children, especially in a household.
- ouanderoo — Archaic form of wanderoo.
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quadruman — a monkey or ape with all four feet specialized for use as hands
- quarenden — a dark-red dessert apple
- radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
- raynaud's — a disease, mainly affecting women, in which spasms in the blood vessels of the fingers or toes restrict blood flow to the affected part, which becomes pale, numb, and sometimes painful
- red angus — one of a subpopulation of Aberdeen Angus beef cattle having a reddish coat.