8-letter words containing c, r, u, i, s
- dioscuri — the Greek name for Castor and Pollux, when considered together
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- discured — Simple past tense and past participle of discure.
- epicures — Plural form of epicure.
- epicurus — An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement commonly known as Epicureanism.
- escurial — Escorial
- eucharis — any amaryllidaceous plant of the South American genus Eucharis, cultivated for their large white fragrant flowers
- fluerics — fluidics.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- ischuria — Ischury.
- jurassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Epoch, occurring from 190 to 140 million years ago and characterized by an abundance of dinosaurs and the advent of birds and mammals.
- juristic — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- leuricus — Leofric.
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- microbus — minibus.
- musicker — a musician
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- ructions — disturbance
- ructious — tending or likely to cause ructions
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rusticly — in a rustic manner
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- scarious — thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.
- scirrhus — a firm, densely collagenous cancer.
- scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- scorpius — a large zodiacal constellation lying between Libra and Sagittarius and crossed by the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Antares
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrier — a scout
- scurries — to go or move quickly or in haste.