8-letter words containing i, r, u
- quirkish — (archaic) Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.
- quirting — Present participle of quirt.
- quitrent — rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
- quitters — Plural form of quitter.
- quivered — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quixotry — A wild, visionary idea, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
- quizzery — mockery; derision
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- radium a — a substance, formed by decay of radon, that gives rise to radium B.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- radium f — an isotope of polonium: polonium 210.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- rain out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rain-out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- rapa nui — Easter Island.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- re-audit — an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- re-equip — to furnish (someone or something) with new supplies, equipment, etc
- reburial — the act of burying (something, esp a dead body) in the ground again
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reduviid — assassin bug.
- refigure — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- refugium — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- refusing — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- regulize — to separate (ore) into regulus and pure metal
- reillume — to relight or to light up again
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- reinfund — to pour in again, to flow in again
- reinfuse — to infuse again
- reinjure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- reinjury — an injury which follows a previous injury to the same place in the body
- reinsure — to insure again.
- reissued — something that is issued again, as a book or a motion picture.
- reissuer — a person or entity that reissues something
- relumine — to relume.
- reoutfit — to outfit again
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- repurify — to purify again, make pure again
- required — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
- requital — the act of requiting.
- requited — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- requiter — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).