7-letter words containing n, u, r, i
- retinue — a body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage; suite.
- reunify — bring together again
- reunion — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar: an overseas department of France. 970 sq. mi. (2512 sq. km). Capital: St. Denis.
- reunite — bring together again
- rhenium — a rare metallic element of the manganese subgroup: used, because of its high melting point, in platinum-rhenium thermocouples. Symbol: Re; atomic number: 75; atomic weight: 186.2.
- ricinus — the castor-oil plant
- rinceau — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- ring up — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- ronquil — any of several percoid fishes of the family Bathymasteridae, ranging along the Pacific coast of North America.
- rouging — any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips.
- rouhani — Hassan (hæˈsɑːn). born 1948, Iranian politician; president of Iran from 2013
- rouming — the division of common pasture into individual portions
- rousing — exciting; stirring: a rousing song.
- routine — subroutine
- routing — a bellow.
- rubbing — an act or instance of rubbing: an alcohol rub.
- rubicon — a river in N Italy flowing E into the Adriatic. 15 miles (24 km) long: in crossing this ancient boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy, to march against Pompey in 49 b.c., Julius Caesar made a major military commitment.
- ruching — material for making a ruche.
- rucking — a fold or wrinkle; crease.
- ruction — a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- ruffian — a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully.
- rugging — a bulky, coarse fabric with a full nap, used as a floor covering.
- ruinate — to ruin.
- ruining — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
- rule in — If you say that you are not ruling in a particular course of action, you mean that you have not definitely decided to take that action.
- rullion — a rawhide shoe
- rumania — Romania.
- ruminal — (of an animal) ruminant
- running — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
- runnion — a woman
- runtish — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- rushing — the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- russian — of or relating to Russia, its people, or their language.
- rusting — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- rutting — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
- saurian — belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
- sirenum — Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- sirtuin — a protein that regulates cell metabolism and ageing
- ski run — a trail, slope, course, or the like, used for skiing.
- souring — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- spruing — Metallurgy. an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold. the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- suberin — a waxlike, fatty substance, occurring in cork cell walls and in or between other cells, that on alkaline hydrolysis yields chiefly suberic acid.
- subring — a subset of a ring that is a subgroup under addition and that is closed under multiplication. Compare ring1 (def 22).
- sunbird — any of various small, brilliantly colored Old World birds of the family Nectariniidae.
- sundari — one of two varieties of mangrove tree, Heritiera fomes or Heritiera littoralis, native to India, particularly found in the Sudarban jungles
- sungari — Songhua.
- sunnier — abounding in sunshine: a sunny day.
- sunrise — a city in SE Florida.
- suramin — a drug used to treat trypanosomiasis