8-letter words containing a, i, l, u, r
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- 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.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- lazurite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate and sulfide, Na 5 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 S 3 , occurring in deep-blue crystals, used for ornamental purposes.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- lithuria — the presence of an excessive amount of uric acid in the urine.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lunarian — a being supposedly inhabiting the moon.
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- luristan — a mountainous region in W Iran.
- manurial — Of or pertaining to manure.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- mufulira — a city in N central Zambia, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- multicar — involving several cars
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- 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.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- 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.