8-letter words containing i, r, u
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purified — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purifier — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- purpuric — a disease characterized by purple or brownish-red spots on the skin or mucous membranes, caused by the extravasation of blood.
- purpurin — a reddish, crystalline, anthraquinone dye, C 1 4 H 5 O 2 (OH) 3 , isomeric with flavopurpurin.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- purtiest — pretty.
- puruloid — resembling pus.
- quadriad — a group of four, especially a group of four persons with an interest or task in common.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- quagmiry — relating to a quagmire
- quarrian — a cockatiel, Leptolophus hollandicus, of scrub and woodland regions of inland Australia, that feeds on seeds and grasses
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrier — a person who quarries stone.
- quarries — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queasier — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- queering — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- queerish — Somewhat queer.
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- quercine — of or relating to an oak.
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- querries — Plural form of querry.
- querying — a question; an inquiry.
- quibbler — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- quiddler — someone who quiddles
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- quipster — a person who frequently makes quips.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- quirinus — an ancient Roman god of war, identified with the deified Romulus; a personification of the Roman nation.
- quirites — the citizens of ancient Rome
- quirkily — having or full of quirks.
- quirking — Present participle of quirk.