8-letter words containing a, l, u, r
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gutteral — Misspelling of guttural.
- guttural — of or relating to the throat.
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- harmfull — Archaic form of harmful.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- karakuls — Plural form of karakul.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kursaals — Plural form of kursaal.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacunars — Plural form of lacunar.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- laguerre — Edmond-Nicolas [ed-mawn-nee-kaw-lah] /ɛd mɔ̃ ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, French mathematician.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- laudator — One who lauds.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- laureate — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- laureled — Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.