8-letter words containing r, a, u
- hurrahed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurrah.
- hurrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of hurray.
- immature — not mature, ripe, developed, perfected, etc.
- in a rut — stuck in routine
- inartful — Awkwardly expressed but not necessarily untrue; impolitic; ill-phrased; inexpedient; clumsy.
- inaurate — gilded or gleaming as if gilded
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- indurain — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Spanish cyclist: first with five consecutive victories (1991–95) in the Tour de France.
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- infrugal — not frugal; wasteful
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- insurant — a person who takes out an insurance policy.
- inurbane — not urbane; lacking in courtesy, refinement, etc.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- irrumate — To practice irrumation; to insert the penis violently into another's mouth.
- isaurian — of or relating to Isauria, an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, or its inhabitants
- ischuria — Ischury.
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
- jajapura — Jayapura.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jaunters — Plural form of jaunter.
- jauntier — Comparative form of jaunty.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- journall — Obsolete form of journal.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- jugurtha — died 104 b.c, king of Numidia 113–104.
- jungfrau — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 13,668 feet (4166 meters).
- junk art — sculptural assemblage constructed from discarded materials, as glass, scrap metal, plastic, and wood.
- junkyard — a yard for the collection, storage, and resale of junk.
- jurassic — noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Epoch, occurring from 190 to 140 million years ago and characterized by an abundance of dinosaurs and the advent of birds and mammals.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- jurymast — a temporary mast assembled to replace a broken one
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- kaieteur — a waterfall in central Guyana, on a tributary of the Essequibo River. 741 feet (226 meters) high.
- kairouan — a city in NE Tunisia: a holy city of Islam.
- kamakura — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan, on Sagami Bay: great bronze statue of Buddha.
- kara kum — a desert S of the Aral Sea, largely in Turkmenistan. About 110,000 sq. mi. (284,900 sq. km).
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- karakuls — Plural form of karakul.
- karrusel — a revolving escapement for minimizing positional error.
- kashruth — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- katsuras — Plural form of katsura.
- kauravas — (in the Mahabharata) the cousins and enemies of the Pandavas.
- kefauver — Estes [es-tis] /ˈɛs tɪs/ (Show IPA), 1903–63, U.S. political leader: U.S. senator 1949–63.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.