10-letter words containing u, n, r, o, d
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- glanderous — Characteristic of, pertaining to, or afflicted by glanders.
- gourdiness — the state of being gourdy
- graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- grand tour — an extended tour of Europe, formerly regarded as a necessary part of the education of young British gentlemen.
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- ground fir — ground pine
- ground fog — a low, often dense fog, especially one through which the sky and clouds above can be seen.
- ground ice — anchor ice.
- ground ivy — a creeping, aromatic plant, Glechoma hederacea, of the mint family, having rounded leaves and whorling clusters of small blue flowers.
- ground log — a lead weight attached to a line, cast overboard in shoal water and allowed to pay out freely to show the speed of a ship and the force of the current.
- ground owl — the burrowing owl.
- ground pea — peanut.
- ground rod — a metal rod embedded in the ground to make a ground connection to the earth.
- ground row — a long, low piece of stage scenery, built to simulate part of a landscape, a building, a fence, or the like.
- ground run — the distance taken by an aircraft to brake from its landing speed to its taxiing speed or a stop
- ground war — the part of a political campaign that is conducted door-to-door by party workers in individual constituencies
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- groundedly — in a grounded manner, or with good justification or reason
- groundfire — small arms fire directed against aircraft from the ground.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- groundhogs — Plural form of groundhog.
- groundless — without rational basis: groundless fears.
- groundling — a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground.
- groundmass — the crystalline, granular, or glassy base or matrix of a porphyritic or other igneous rock, in which the more prominent crystals are embedded.
- groundnuts — Plural form of groundnut.
- groundouts — Plural form of groundout.
- 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.
- gynandrous — having stamens and pistils united in a column, as in orchids.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like