8-letter words containing l, a, u, r
- nummular — pertaining to coins or money; nummary.
- nurtural — relating to, resulting from, or because of nurture
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- oracular — of the nature of, resembling, or suggesting an oracle: an oracular response.
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- overhaul — to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition: My car was overhauled by an expert mechanic.
- pastural — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- paul pry — an inquisitive, meddlesome person.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- pleasure — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- plumular — relating to the plumule of a plant
- plurally — as a plural; in a plural sense.
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pourable — able to be poured
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- prepupal — of the period between the larval and pupal stages
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
- quakerly — like a Quaker.
- quarrels — Plural form of quarrel.
- 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.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.