8-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- trigonum — trigone.
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- trunnion — either of the two cylindrical projections on a cannon, one on each side for supporting the cannon on its carriage.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turcoman — Turkoman.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn out — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn-off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
- turncock — (formerly) an official employed to turn on the water for the mains supply
- turndown — that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- turnover — an act or result of turning over; upset.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- tutoring — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- unadored — not adored, revered, or worshipped
- unanchor — to remove or loose from anchor
- unbroken — not broken; whole; intact.
- unburrow — to come out of or force out of a burrow
- unciform — hook-shaped.
- underdog — a person who is expected to lose in a contest or conflict.
- undergod — a subordinate god
- undertow — the seaward, subsurface flow or draft of water from waves breaking on a beach.
- undrossy — free from dross; pure
- unerotic — arousing or satisfying sexual desire: an erotic dance.
- unforbid — unforbidden
- unforced — enforced or compulsory: forced labor.
- unforged — genuine
- unforked — not forked
- unformed — not definitely shaped; shapeless or formless.
- unground — not crushed
- unheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- unicolor — having only one color.
- unicorny — (humour, programming) A feature that's so early in the planning stages that it might as well be imaginary.
- unilobar — (of an organ in the body) having, consisting of, or relating to one lobe
- unipolar — Also, homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
- unironed — (of clothing, etc) that has not been ironed
- unironic — not ironic
- unkosher — Judaism. fit or allowed to be eaten or used, according to the dietary or ceremonial laws: kosher meat; kosher dishes; a kosher tallith. adhering to the laws governing such fitness: a kosher restaurant.
- unlordly — not befitting a lord or the rank of lord; ignoble; common; lowly
- unmodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.