8-letter words containing i, u, r
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carinula — a small carina.
- causerie — an informal talk or conversational piece of writing
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerulein — a bright blue dyestuff obtained from indigo
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- char siu — barbecued marinated pork
- cherubic — If someone looks cherubic, they look sweet and innocent like a cherub.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chirrups — Plural form of chirrup.
- chirrupy — chirpy; cheerful.
- chromium — Chromium is a hard, shiny metallic element, used to make steel alloys and to coat other metals.
- chubbier — Comparative form of chubby.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.
- ciborium — a goblet-shaped lidded vessel used to hold consecrated wafers in Holy Communion
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- circuits — Plural form of circuit.
- circuity — (of speech, reasoning, etc) a roundabout or devious quality
- circular — Something that is circular is shaped like a circle.
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- circulus — any of the concentric circles on each scale of a fish, each of which indicates the annual growth of that scale.
- circuses — Plural form of circus.
- circussy — characteristic of a circus
- ciseleur — a person who is expert in ciselure
- ciselure — the art or process of chasing metal
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- citreous — of a greenish-yellow colour; citron
- citruses — Plural form of citrus.
- citrussy — having or resembling the taste or colour of a citrus fruit
- clairaut — Alexis Claude [a-lek-see klohd] /a lɛkˈsi kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1713–65, French mathematician.
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.
- coiffeur — a hairdresser
- coiffure — A person's coiffure is their hairstyle.
- coinsure — to take out coinsurance
- colubrid — any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types
- conarium — the pineal gland
- conurbia — conurbations considered collectively
- copurify — (of a compound) to purify, and be purified by, another compound
- coremium — the spore-producing organ of certain fungi that consists of conidiophores