8-letter words containing i, r, u
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hungrier — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hungrily — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurdling — (athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
- hurrying — to move, proceed, or act with haste (often followed by up): Hurry, or we'll be late. Hurry up, it's starting to rain.
- hurtling — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- illustre — (obsolete) illustrious.
- imbruing — Present participle of imbrue.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.
- immature — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- immuring — Present participle of immure.
- imperium — command; supreme power.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurify — To make impure.
- impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
- impurple — Alternative form of empurple.
- in a rut — stuck in routine
- in ruins — structure: severely damaged
- in trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- in truth — honestly, to tell the truth
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- inaurate — gilded or gleaming as if gilded
- 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.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- indulger — to yield to an inclination or desire; allow oneself to follow one's will (often followed by in): Dessert came, but I didn't indulge. They indulged in unbelievable shopping sprees.
- indurain — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Spanish cyclist: first with five consecutive victories (1991–95) in the Tour de France.
- 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.