8-letter words containing r, a, u
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gujarati — an Indic language of western India.
- gulf war — a conflict (Jan.–Feb. 1991) between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
- gunlayer — a person who aims a ship's gun
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- gurkhali — the language of the Gurkhas, belonging to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- gutteral — Misspelling of guttural.
- guttural — of or relating to the throat.
- habsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangue — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- harfleur — a port in N France, in Seine-Maritime department: important centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 8602 (2005)
- hari rud — a river in NW Afghanistan, NE Iran, and S Turkmenistan, flowing W and then N to the Kara Kum desert. 700 miles (1126 km) long.
- harmfull — Archaic form of harmful.
- harrumph — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- hatbrush — a soft brush for hats
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- hatguard — a string to keep a hat from blowing off
- hau tree — a clambering tree, Hibiscus tileaceus, of tropical shores, having leathery, ovate leaves and yellow flowers that turn dark red as they fade, and yielding a fiber used as cordage.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- hauliers — Plural form of haulier.
- hauriant — (of a fish) represented as erect, with the head upward: a dolphin hauriant.
- hausfrau — a housewife.
- headrush — A sudden feeling of euphoria, especially as a result of taking drugs.
- hear out — listen to the end
- heartful — An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
- heuchera — any of various North American plants belonging to the genus Heuchera, of the saxifrage family, having clusters of small, cup-shaped flowers, especially the alumroots.
- hilarius — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hiranuma — Baron Kiichiro [kee-ee-chee-raw] /kiˈi tʃiˌrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1867?–1952, Japanese statesman.
- honduran — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- huaquero — the Spanish name for a tomb or grave robber
- huarache — a Mexican sandal having the upper woven of leather strips.
- huaracho — huarache.