8-letter words containing a, n, u, r
- guardant — (of an animal) depicted full-faced but with the body seen from the side: a lion guardant.
- guardian — a person who guards, protects, or preserves.
- guarding — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guarneri — Giuseppe Antonio [joo-zep-pe ahn-taw-nyaw] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Joseph Guarnerius) 1683–1745, Italian violinmaker.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- hauriant — (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- honduran — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- in a rut — stuck in routine
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- inaurate — gilded or gleaming as if gilded
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- indurain — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Spanish cyclist: first with five consecutive victories (1991–95) in the Tour de France.
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- insurant — a person who takes out an insurance policy.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- isaurian — of or relating to Isauria, an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, or its inhabitants
- jaunters — Plural form of jaunter.
- jauntier — Comparative form of jaunty.
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- jungfrau — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 13,668 feet (4166 meters).
- junk art — sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- 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.
- lacunars — Plural form of lacunar.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- 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
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- 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.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lunarian — a being supposedly inhabiting the moon.