8-letter words containing a, i, r, s, u
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- 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.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- 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
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- samarium — a rare-earth metallic element discovered in samarskite. Symbol: Sm; atomic weight: 150.35; atomic number: 62; specific gravity: 7.49.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scarious — thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- siracusa — Syracuse (def 2).
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- squailer — a stick that has been specially weighted to use as a missile for throwing at something
- squarial — a type of square dish formerly produced by BSB for receiving satellite television. Previous satellite dishes had been round. The Squarial ceased to be produced in 1990.
- squarish — approximately square.
- squirage — squires considered as a whole group
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- suburbia — suburbs collectively.
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- subviral — of or relating to any macromolecule smaller in size or possessing a lesser degree of organization than a comparable intact viral particle.
- sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- 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.
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- tiramisu — an Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
- tourista — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.