8-letter words containing e, u, r, o
- europium — The chemical element of atomic number 63, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series. Europium oxide is used with yttrium oxide as a red phosphor in color television screens.
- eurostar — a high speed train that connects London and Kent in the UK with Paris and Lille in France and Brussels in Belgium by crossing the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel
- eurostat — an organization within the European Union that collects and collates statistical information relating to member states
- eurozone — The group of European Union nations whose national currency is the euro.
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- eutropic — of, relating to or characterized by eutropy
- executor — A person or institution appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of their will.
- exordium — The beginning or introductory part, especially of a discourse or treatise.
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- farouche — fierce.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- favourer — Alternative form of favorer.
- ferguson — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- ferreous — of, resembling, or containing iron: a ferreous alloy.
- fervours — Plural form of fervour.
- feverous — feverish.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- 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.
- fluework — the flue stops of an organ collectively
- fluorene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 13 H 10 , used chiefly in the manufacture of resins and dyes.
- fluoride — a salt of hydrofluoric acid consisting of two elements, one of which is fluorine, as sodium fluoride, NaF.
- 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.
- fluorite — a common mineral, calcium fluoride, CaF 2 , occurring in green, blue, purple, yellow, or colorless crystals, usually in cubes: the principal source of fluorine, used also as a flux in metallurgy and for ornament.
- footrule — rigid measure, one foot in length
- for sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- forceful — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- foreguts — Plural form of foregut.
- foreruns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forerun.
- forjudge — to exclude, expel, dispossess, or deprive by a judgment.
- formulae — a set form of words, as for stating or declaring something definitely or authoritatively, for indicating procedure to be followed, or for prescribed use on some ceremonial occasion.
- fortuned — Simple past tense and past participle of fortune.
- fortunes — Plural form of fortune.
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- foundery — Alternative form of foundry.
- fourchee — a type of heraldic cross
- fourness — The property of being four in number.
- fourplex — quadplex.
- foursome — a company or set of four; two couples; a quartet: to make up a foursome for bridge.
- fourteen — a cardinal number, ten plus four.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- froideur — an attitude of haughty aloofness; cold superiority.
- frondeur — a rebel; rioter.
- frotteur — a person who practices frottage.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fuel rod — nuclear fuel contained in a long thin-walled tube, an array of such tubes forming the core of a nuclear reactor.
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- fumewort — Any of various plants of the subfamily Fumarioideae or family Fumariaceae.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furbelow — a ruffle or flounce, as on a woman's skirt or petticoat.