8-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u
- returnee — a person who has returned, as from travels or a long absence.
- returner — person returning to formal education
- returnik — a person returning or intending to return to his or her own country, esp the former Soviet Union
- ritenuto — held back momentarily
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- routeing — (networking) (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- 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.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- sederunt — a prolonged discussion or session for discussion.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- test run — trial
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- the runs — diarrhoea
- the turn — the fourth community card to be dealt face-up in a round of Texas hold ’em
- thundery — thunderous.
- tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- truename — (operating system) An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
- trueness — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
- trundler — to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll.
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turbined — having or passing through a turbine or turbines
- turgenev — Ivan Sergeevich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1818–83, Russian novelist.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.