8-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- overhung — simple past tense and past participle of overhang.
- overhunt — to hunt in an unsustainable manner
- overturn — to destroy the power of; overthrow; defeat; vanquish.
- 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.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union
- printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
- profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- pronouns — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- propound — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- prounion — the act of uniting two or more things.
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pundonor — a point of honour
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quiberon — a peninsula in NW France, on the S coast of Brittany: British naval victory over the French 1759. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- quintero — Álvarez Quintero.
- 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).
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-count — to count again.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reground — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- rent out — hire, offer for rental
- resinous — full of or containing resin.
- resummon — to summon again
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- ring out — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- rio muni — the mainland province of Equatorial Guinea on the Guinea coast: formerly the mainland portion of Spanish Guinea. 10,040 sq. mi. (26,003 sq. km).
- riot gun — a gun, especially a shotgun with a short barrel, for quelling riots rather than inflicting serious injury.
- ritenuto — held back momentarily
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- rosinous — rosiny
- rough on — severe towards
- roumania — Romania.
- round in — to haul in on (a line)
- round on — If someone rounds on you, they criticize you fiercely and attack you with aggressive words.
- round to — to turn the bow of a vessel into the wind
- round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.