8-letter words containing r, a, u
- krakatau — a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
- krumkake — a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kursaals — Plural form of kursaal.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- laburnum — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacunars — Plural form of lacunar.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- laforgue — Jules (ʒyl). 1860–87, French symbolist poet. An originator of free verse, he had a considerable influence on modern poetry
- laguerre — Edmond-Nicolas [ed-mawn-nee-kaw-lah] /ɛd mɔ̃ ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, French mathematician.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- languour — Alternative spelling of languor.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- lararium — (in an ancient Roman home) a shrine for the Lares.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larouche — Lyndon H., Jr. born 1922, U.S. economist and politician.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- lartigue — Jacques Henri [zhahk ahn-ree] /ʒɑk ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1894–1986, French photographer and painter.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- laudator — One who lauds.
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- laughter — the action or sound of laughing.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- laureate — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- laureled — Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lauretta — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lazurite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate and sulfide, Na 5 Al 3 Si 3 O 12 S 3 , occurring in deep-blue crystals, used for ornamental purposes.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- legatura — (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
- liakoura — modern name of Parnassus (def 1).
- ligature — the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- lithuria — the presence of an excessive amount of uric acid in the urine.
- lubrical — Obsolete form of lubric.
- luchador — A person who competes in lucha libre wrestling.
- lucretia — Also, Lucrece [loo-krees] /luˈkris/ (Show IPA). Roman Legend. a Roman woman whose suicide led to the expulsion of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Roman republic.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.