8-letter words containing a, u
- european — geography
- eurostar — a high speed train that connects London and Kent in the UK with Paris and Lille in France and Brussels in Belgium by crossing the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel
- eurostat — an organization within the European Union that collects and collates statistical information relating to member states
- eurybath — an aquatic organism that can live at different depths
- eusocial — (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals.
- eustatic — Of or pertaining to eustasy.
- eutaxite — a type of banded volcanic rock
- euthymia — (psychology) A normal, non-depressed, reasonably positive mood; serenity.
- evacuant — A medicine that induces some kind of bodily discharge, such as an emetic, a sudorific, or especially a laxative.
- evacuate — Remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place.
- evacuees — Plural form of evacuee.
- evaluate — Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
- eventual — Occurring at the end of or as a result of a series of events; final; ultimate.
- evulgate — to make public; to divulge
- excubant — keeping watch; on guard
- exequial — of or relating to exequies
- exhausts — Plural form of exhaust.
- exhumate — (obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
- exonumia — Coinlike objects.
- extubate — (surgery) To remove a tube from a hollow organ or from an airway.
- exudates — Plural form of exudate.
- exultant — Triumphantly happy.
- exuviate — (ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- fabulate — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- fabulous — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- faburden — an early system of musical harmonization
- face out — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- fade-out — an act or instance of fading.
- faesulae — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany near Florence: Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 14 085 (2001)
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- fair-use — reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright: The artist's biographer claimed fair use of quotes from unpublished personal letters.
- faithful — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- fake out — to deceive or outmaneuver as by a feint, bluff, or deceptive act
- fake-out — prepare or make (something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent): to fake a report showing nonexistent profits.
- fall guy — an easy victim.
- fall out — an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
- fallouts — Plural form of fallout.
- fallujah — a town in central Iraq, about 60 km west of Baghdad; a centre of resistance against the US-led invasion (2003) of Iraq; captured by Islamic State in 2014. Pop: 223 000 (2005 est)
- falmouth — a seaport in S Cornwall, in SW England.
- famously — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- fanciful — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.