8-letter words containing a, e, r, i, u
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrier — a person who quarries stone.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- re-audit — an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- requital — the act of requiting.
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- ruralite — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- ruralize — to make rural.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- squailer — a stick that has been specially weighted to use as a missile for throwing at something
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- taqueria — a restaurant or stand specializing in Mexican dishes, as tacos and burritos.
- temirtau — a city in E central Kazakhstan, NW of Karaganda.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- unarisen — not having risen
- unfairer — more unfair
- unhairer — an instrument for removing hair
- unixware — (operating system) Novell's implementation of Unix System 5 heavily based on Release 4.2 but with enhancements and new bundled products. In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from AT&T along with the Unix trademark. UnixWare was the result of Novell's efforts to make Unix interoperable with Novell NetWare. In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity. It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.