8-letter words containing o, u, r, i
- fusiform — spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.
- glorious — delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.
- goitrous — pertaining to or affected with goiter.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- groupoid — an algebraic system closed under a binary operation. Also called monoid. Compare group (def 9), semigroup.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grouting — Grout, especially when hardened.
- gruiform — of or relating to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guilford — a town in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- hire out — to engage the services of (a person or persons) for wages or other payment: to hire a clerk.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- in utero — surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.
- in-group — a narrow exclusive group; clique.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- inground — sunk into the ground; built into the ground
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- iridious — (chemistry) containing trivalent iridium.
- iris-out — the gradual disappearance of an image or scene through a contracting circle.
- iron out — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- iroquois — a member of a North American Indian confederacy, the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and later the Tuscaroras.
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- jointure — an estate or property settled on a woman in consideration of marriage, to be owned by her after her husband's death.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.