9-letter words containing r, u, n, i
- gin rummy — gin4 (def 1).
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gingerous — (of hair) reddish
- ginormous — extremely large; huge.
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- grind out — extinguish: a cigarette, etc.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- grounding — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- gruelling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- grundyism — a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- gruntling — A young hog or pig.
- 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.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- haut-rhin — a department in NE France. 1354 sq. mi. (3505 sq. km). Capital: Colmar.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hirundine — of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- humanizer — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- humouring — humor.
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- ignoramus — an extremely ignorant person.