8-letter words containing n, u, r, s, e
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- signieur — a lord
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- snuffers — an instrument resembling a pair of scissors for trimming the wick or extinguishing the flame of a candle
- snuggery — a snug place or position.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sourness — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- squireen — the landowner of a small estate; a squire of a small domain.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- suckener — a tenant of a sucken
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- summoner — to call upon to do something specified.
- sun bear — a small bear, Helarctos malayanus, of tropical forests in S and SE Asia, having a black coat and a yellowish snout and feeding mostly on honey and insects
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sunberry — wonderberry.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sundered — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sunderer — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sundress — a dress with a bodice styled to expose the arms, shoulders, and back, for wear during hot weather.
- sundries — miscellaneous items
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- supergun — any extremely powerful gun
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- sureness — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- test run — trial
- the runs — diarrhoea
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trueness — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.
- unarisen — not having risen