8-letter words containing e, c, r, u
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- guericke — Otto von [awt-oh-fuh n] /ˈɔt oʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1602–86, German physicist.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- heuchera — any of various North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, having clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers, especially the alumroots.
- huarache — a Mexican sandal having the upper woven of leather strips.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- incumber — encumber.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lectured — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- lecturer — a person who lectures.
- lectures — Plural form of lecture.
- leuricus — Leofric.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- luderick — An edible, herbivorous fish of Australasian coastal waters and estuaries.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- lurchers — Plural form of lurcher.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- muckrake — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- musicker — a musician
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.