8-letter words containing i, r, u
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furibund — Choleric, irate, propense to being furious.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- furriers — Plural form of furrier.
- furriery — the business, trade, or craftsmanship of a furrier.
- furriner — a foreigner.
- fursuits — Plural form of fursuit.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusiform — spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.
- fusileer — Alternative form of fusilier.
- fusilier — a member of a British regiment formerly armed with fusils.
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- futurism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.
- futurist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a follower of futurism, especially an artist or writer.
- futurity — future time: Such discussion is better left to futurity.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- galerius — full name Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus. ?250–311 ad, Eastern Roman Emperor (305–311): noted for his persecution of Christians
- gaultier — Jean-Paul (ʒɑ̃pɔl). born 1952, French fashion designer
- geniture — birth; generation.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- ginsburg — Ruth Bader [bey-der] /ˈbeɪ dər/ (Show IPA), born 1933, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993.
- ginzburg — Natalia (nataˈliːa). 1916–91, Italian writer and dramatist. Her books include The Road to the City (1942), Voices in the Evening (1961), and Family Sayings (1963)
- glorious — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- glutaric — Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives.
- goitrous — pertaining to or affected with goiter.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- gratuity — a gift of money, over and above payment due for service, as to a waiter or bellhop; tip.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- griefful — (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- grubbier — Comparative form of grubby.
- grubbies — a small sculpin, Myxocephalus aenaeus, inhabiting waters off the coast of New England.
- grubbily — In a grubby manner.
- grubbing — Present participle of grub.
- grudging — done, arranged, etc., in order to settle a grudge: The middleweight fight was said to be a grudge match.
- grueling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- gruffily — in a gruffy manner