8-letter words containing a, y, u, r
- flavoury — Possessing flavour.
- four-way — providing access or passage in four directions: a four-way entrance.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- glamoury — (obsolete) magic.
- gratuity — a gift of money, over and above payment due for service, as to a waiter or bellhop; tip.
- gray urn — a smooth, urn-shaped edible mushroom, Urnula craterium, commonly found in North America on fallen hardwood.
- guaranty — a warrant, pledge, or formal assurance given as security that another's debt or obligation will be fulfilled.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- jurymast — a temporary mast assembled to replace a broken one
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- 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
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- mark you — You can say mark you to emphasize and draw attention to something you have just said.
- marry up — to join
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- neurally — of or relating to a nerve or the nervous system.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- out tray — An out tray is a shallow container used in offices to put letters and documents in when they have been dealt with and are ready to be sent somewhere else. Compare in tray.
- out-year — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- plurally — as a plural; in a plural sense.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- purparty — a share of an estate held by coparceners that is apportioned to one upon the division of the estate among them.
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.