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9-letter words starting with gu

  • guideways — Plural form of guideway.
  • guideword — A watchword; a word or phrase that serves as one's guide.
  • guildford — a city in S England, in Surrey: cathedral (1936–68); seat of the University of Surrey (1966). Pop: 69 400 (2001)
  • guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
  • guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
  • guildsman — a member of a guild.
  • guildsmen — a member of a guild.
  • guileless — free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank.
  • guillaume — Charles Édouard [French sharl ey-dwar] /French ʃarl eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1861–1938, Swiss physicist: Nobel Prize 1920.
  • guillemet — one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations.
  • guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
  • guillemot — a black or brown-speckled seabird of the genus Cepphus, of northern seas, having a sharply pointed black bill, red legs, and white wing patches, as C. grylle (black guillemot) of the North Atlantic and the similar C. columba (pigeon guillemot) of the North Pacific.
  • guilloche — an ornamental pattern or border, as in architecture, consisting of paired ribbons or lines flowing in interlaced curves around a series of circular voids.
  • guiltiest — Superlative form of guilty.
  • guiltless — free from guilt; innocent.
  • guiltware — /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. Shareware that works.
  • guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
  • guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
  • guitarist — a performer on the guitar.
  • gull wing — an aircraft wing having a short upward-sloping inner section and a longer horizontal outer section
  • gull-like — any of numerous long-winged, web-toed, aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having usually white plumage with a gray back and wings.
  • gull-wing — (of an automobile door) hinged at the top and opening upward.
  • gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
  • gum elemi — elemi.
  • gum field — an area of land containing buried fossilized kauri gum
  • gum plant — gumweed.
  • gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
  • gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
  • gummatous — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
  • gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
  • gummosity — the quality of being gummous
  • gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
  • gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
  • gumsucker — a native-born Australian
  • gun crime — offences involving firearms
  • gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
  • gun-metal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
  • gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
  • guncotton — a highly explosive cellulose nitrate, made by digesting clean cotton in a mixture of one part nitric acid and three parts sulfuric acid: used in making smokeless powder.
  • gunfights — Plural form of gunfight.
  • gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
  • gunk hole — a quiet anchorage, as in a cove, used by small yachts.
  • gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
  • gunnbjornMount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
  • gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
  • gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
  • gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
  • gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • gunrunner — A person engaged in the illegal sale or importing of firearms.
  • gunsights — Plural form of gunsight.
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