8-letter words containing a, e, r, u
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crustate — having a crust or shell
- cubature — the determination of the cubic contents of something
- cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- curacies — Plural form of curacy.
- curarine — an alkaloid extracted from curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery. Formula: C19H26ON2
- curarize — to paralyse or treat with curare
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyanuret — cyanide
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- detraque — insane person
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- dungaree — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dunleary — a port in E Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay. Pop: 24 447 (2002)
- durables — (economics) Plural form of durable; durable goods.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.
- ear tuft — a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.