8-letter words containing i, r, u
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- ourinhos — a city in E Brazil.
- outbribe — to bribe more than
- outcrier — One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- outdrink — To drink more than someone else.
- outdrive — Drive a golf ball farther than (another player).
- outfires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outfire.
- outliers — something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outliver — (obsolete) A survivor.
- outprice — To sell at a lower price than (another seller).
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outraise — To raise more of something than someone else; often used specifically in reference to fundraising.
- outreign — to reign for longer than
- outrider — a mounted attendant riding before or beside a carriage.
- outrides — Plural form of outride.
- outright — complete or total: an outright loss.
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- outskirt — Often, outskirts. the outlying district or region, as of a city, metropolitan area, or the like: to live on the outskirts of town; a sparsely populated outskirt.
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- outtrick — to outdo in trickery
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- outwrite — to write more or better than.
- ovarious — belonging or relating to eggs, or consisting of eggs
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.