8-letter words containing o, u, r, i
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kuroshio — Japan Current.
- kurtosis — the state or quality of flatness or peakedness of the curve describing a frequency distribution in the region about its mode.
- lemuroid — lemurlike; of the lemur kind.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- limbourg — a medieval duchy in W Europe: now divided into a province in the SE Netherlands (Limburg) and a province in NE Belgium (Limbourg)
- liquored — Simple past tense and past participle of liquor.
- loquitur — (he or she) speaks (with the speaker’s name following, as a stage direction or to inform the reader).
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- microbus — minibus.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- missouri — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- moribund — in a dying state; near death.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- mouchoir — a handkerchief.
- mouldier — Comparative form of mouldy.
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mourning — The expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- muciform — Resembling mucus.
- muricoid — (zoology) Resembling or relating to the genus Murex or family Muricidae.
- muriform — (of cells, spores, etc) having a regular arrangement, as bricks in a wall
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- nidorous — (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nubiform — cloud-like
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- occupier — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- oil drum — a metal drum used to contain or transport oil
- oliguria — scantiness of urine due to diminished secretion.
- oliguric — of or relating to oliguria
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous