8-letter words containing a, i, l, u
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- plausive — applauding.
- playsuit — a sports costume for women and children, usually consisting of shorts and a shirt, worn as beachwear, for tennis, etc.
- 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.
- poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- pulpital — relating to the pulpit
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- 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.
- quaylike — resembling a quay
- queasily — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quillaia — soapbark (sense 1)
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- 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.
- rio azul — an archaeological site in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where a 1500-year-old painted Mayan tomb was discovered intact in 1984.
- ritually — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ruralism — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- ruralist — one who leads or advocates a rural life