8-letter words containing o, r, a, i, u
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- ovarious — belonging or relating to eggs, or consisting of eggs
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- 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).
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- rio azul — an archaeological site in the jungles of northern Guatemala, where a 1500-year-old painted Mayan tomb was discovered intact in 1984.
- rosarium — a rose garden.
- roumania — Romania.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- scarious — thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.
- solarium — a glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
- soralium — (in a lichen) a group of soredia.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourista — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- tutorial — pertaining to or exercised by a tutor: tutorial functions or authority.
- 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.
- urinator — someone who urinates
- variorum — containing different versions of the text by various editors: a variorum edition of Shakespeare.
- virtuosa — a female virtuoso; a woman with exceptional talent or skill, especially in music.