8-letter words containing e, n, r, o, u
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- en route — on the way
- enamours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enamour.
- enarmour — To clothe with protective coverings.
- encolour — to give a colour to
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- enormous — very big
- enshroud — Envelop completely and hide from view.
- eruption — An act or instance of erupting.
- eurobond — Eurobonds are bonds which are issued in a particular European currency and sold to people from a country with a different currency.
- euroland — also Eurozone
- euronext — a European stock exchange formed by the amalgamation of the Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam bourses
- euronote — a form of euro-commercial paper consisting of short-term negotiable bearer notes
- european — geography
- eurozone — The group of European Union nations whose national currency is the euro.
- ferguson — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flounder — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- foreruns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forerun.
- fortuned — Simple past tense and past participle of fortune.
- fortunes — Plural form of fortune.
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- fourness — The property of being four in number.
- fourteen — a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- generous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- go under — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- grounded — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- grounder — ground ball.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- hereunto — to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point: attached hereto; agreeable hereto.
- hereupon — upon or on this.
- home run — Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honouree — One who receives an honour or award.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- hungover — hung (def 3).
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.