8-letter words containing r, a, u
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frabjous — wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
- fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- fraudful — Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; fraudulent.
- fraughts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraught.
- fraulein — an unmarried woman.
- frautage — cargo
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- frenular — of or relating to a fraenum
- freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friulian — a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken by about half a million people of the plains of extreme NE Italy.
- frugally — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- fruitage — the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
- fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
- fujayrah — Al-, one of the United Arab Emirates, on the Gulf of Oman.
- fujiwara — a member of a powerful family in Japan who exercised power as regents in the name of the emperor, a.d. 858–1160.
- fulcrate — having or supported by fulcra
- fulgural — of or relating to lightning
- fumarase — an enzyme found in liver and muscle which acts as a catalyst in the inter-conversion of fumarate and malate
- fumarate — the salt of fumaric acid, a key chemical intermediate in the Krebs cycle.
- fumarium — A smoke chamber used in Ancient Rome to enhance the flavor of wine.
- fumarole — a hole in or near a volcano, from which vapor rises.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- funerals — Plural form of funeral.
- funerary — of or relating to a funeral or burial: a funerary urn.
- funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- fur farm — a farm on which animals, as minks, are raised for their pelts.
- fur seal — any of several eared seals, as Callorhinus alascanus, having a plush underfur used in making coats, trimmings, etc.
- furacity — (obsolete) Addictedness to theft; thievishness.
- furanose — (chemistry) any cyclic hemiacetal form of a monosaccharide having a five-membered ring (the tetrahydrofuran skeleton).
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- furculae — Plural form of furcula.
- furcular — of or relating to the furcula
- furfural — a colorless, oily liquid, C 5 H 4 O 2 , having an aromatic odor, obtained from bran, sugar, wood, corncobs, or the like, by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics and as a solvent in the refining of lubricating oils.
- furfuran — furan.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusarole — a type of architectural moulding often found below the echinus or quarter round of a column
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- futurama — an exhibition or display that attempts to depict certain aspects or elements of life in the future.
- gaboriau — Émile [ey-meel] /eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1835–73, French author of detective stories.