8-letter words containing d, u, r
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- rubidium — a silver-white, metallic, active element resembling potassium, used in photoelectric cells and radio vacuum tubes. Symbol: Rb; atomic weight: 85.47; atomic number: 37; specific gravity: 1.53 at 20°C.
- ruby-red — of the deep red colour of a ruby
- ruddiest — of or having a fresh, healthy red color: a ruddy complexion.
- rude boy — a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
- rudeness — discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- rudolf i — 1218–91, king of Germany and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1273–91: founder of the Hapsburg dynasty.
- ruggedly — having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface: rugged ground.
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- rumoured — If something is rumoured to be the case, people are suggesting that it is the case, but they do not know for certain.
- rumsfeld — Donald, born 1932, U.S. secretary of defense 1975–77, 2001–06.
- run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- run-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- rutledge — Ann, 1816–35, fiancée of Abraham Lincoln.
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- saturday — the seventh day of the week, following Friday.
- 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)
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- seductor — a person, usually a man, who seduces
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- shrouded — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shrugged — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shuddery — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- siluroid — a freshwater fish of the family Siluridae
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- slurried — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smouldry — smouldering
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- squadder — a member of a squad: riot squadder; fire squadder.
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).