8-letter words containing i, n, c, r, u
- eructing — Present participle of eruct.
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- 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.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- 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.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- nip curn — a tightfisted woman
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- ructions — disturbance
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- ruthenic — containing ruthenium in a higher valence state than the corresponding ruthenious compound.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.