8-letter words containing i, n, r, u
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
- injurers — Plural form of injurer.
- injuries — Plural form of injury.
- injuring — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- inputter — One who, or that which, inputs.
- inquired — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- inquirer — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- inquires — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- inrushes — Plural form of inrush.
- 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.
- insulter — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- insurant — a person who takes out an insurance policy.
- insureds — the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
- insurers — Plural form of insurer.
- insuring — Present participle of insure.
- 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.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- intrigue — to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- intruded — Simple past tense and past participle of intrude.
- intruder — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- intrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intrude.
- inturned — an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- inurning — Present participle of inurn.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- isaurian — of or relating to Isauria, an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, or its inhabitants
- jauntier — Comparative form of jaunty.
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- junipers — Plural form of juniper.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- knurling — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- lunarian — a being supposedly inhabiting the moon.
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.