8-letter words containing a, s, u, r, e
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- quarrels — Plural form of quarrel.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarters — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quartets — Plural form of quartet.
- quartzes — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- racemous — racemose.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- 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.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- raptures — expressions of ecstatic joy
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- reaccuse — to accuse (a person, organization, etc) again
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- reassume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- reassure — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- resalute — to salute or greet again
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- reusable — available or convenient for use: 2000 square feet of usable office space.
- rosulate — forming a rosette or rosettes.
- rousseau — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Le Douanier") 1844–1910, French painter.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- rustable — liable to rust
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- saboteur — a person who commits or practices sabotage.
- sarraute — Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- saussure — Ferdinand de [French fer-dee-nahn duh] /French fɛr diˈnɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1857–1913, Swiss linguist.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- serapeum — a place, as a burial site, building, or group of buildings, dedicated to Serapis.
- serratus — any of various muscles in the thorax, which produce the appearance of a serrated border by their arrangement
- servqual — the provision of high-quality products by an organization backed by a high level of service for consumers
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater