8-letter words containing u, r, g
- guardant — (of an animal) depicted full-faced but with the body seen from the side: a lion guardant.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- guardian — a person who guards, protects, or preserves.
- guarding — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guarneri — Giuseppe Antonio [joo-zep-pe ahn-taw-nyaw] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Joseph Guarnerius) 1683–1745, Italian violinmaker.
- guaviare — a river in central and E Colombia, flowing E to the Orinoco River. 650 (1046 km) long.
- guelders — Gelderland.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- guericke — Otto von [awt-oh-fuh n] /ˈɔt oʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1602–86, German physicist.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guernsey — Isle of, one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel. With adjacent islands, about 24½ sq. mi. (63 sq. km).
- guerrero — a state in S Mexico. 24,885 sq. mi. (64,452 sq. km). Capital: Chilpancingo.
- guessers — Plural form of guesser.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- guiltier — having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation or penalty; culpable: The jury found her guilty of murder.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gujarati — an Indic language of western India.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gulfport — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- gulliver — (slang) one's head.
- gum tree — any tree that exudes gum, as a eucalyptus, the sour gum, or the sweet gum.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- gumtrees — Plural form of gumtree.
- gun brig — a naval brig of the 18th century having from 8 to 12 guns.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- gun room — a room in which guns are kept.
- gunfires — Plural form of gunfire.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gunrooms — Plural form of gunroom.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- gurgling — to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- gurgoyle — Alternative form of gargoyle.
- gurindji — an Aboriginal people of N central Australia
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gurmukhi — the script used for writing the Punjabi language
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- gutteral — Misspelling of guttural.
- guttered — Simple past tense and past participle of gutter.
- guttural — of or relating to the throat.
- guy rope — A guy rope is a rope or wire that has one end fastened to a tent or pole and the other end fixed to the ground, so that it keeps the tent or pole in position.
- guyliner — (informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.
- guzzlers — Plural form of guzzler.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.