8-letter words containing r, a, u
- cut rate — a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- cut-rate — Cut-rate goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutgrass — the general name for any grass of the genus Leersia, native to the Americas and Eurasia
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cyanuric — of or derived from cyanuric acid.
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- daiquiri — A daiquiri is a drink made with rum, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and ice.
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- detraque — insane person
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamful — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- drucilla — a female given name.
- drumbeat — the rhythmic sound of a drum.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- drusilla — a female given name.
- du barry — Comtesse (Marie Jeanne Bécu) 1746–93, mistress of Louis XV.