8-letter words containing r, a, u
- maturers — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturest — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- medullar — Medullary.
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menu bar — a horizontal menu displayed at the top of a computer screen or window, listing available menus for an application, as File, Edit, and View.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- mirabeau — Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti [aw-naw-rey ga-bree-el veek-tawr reekuh-tee] /ɔ nɔˈreɪ ga briˈɛl vikˈtɔr rikəˈti/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1749–91, French Revolutionary statesman and orator.
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- monaural — monophonic (def 2).
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- mouchard — a police informer or spy
- muck bar — a rough bar of wrought iron, rolled from blooms of iron extracted from a puddling furnace.
- muckrake — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- mud crab — a large edible crab, Scylla serrata, of Australian mangrove regions
- mudguard — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- mufulira — a city in N central Zambia, on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- muharram — Moharram.
- multicar — involving several cars
- muraenid — any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- muralled — decorated with a mural or murals
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- muriatic — (not in scientific use) of or derived from muriatic acid.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- mushaira — A poetic symposium in Pakistan or North India at which poets gather to perform their works, traditionally ghazals.
- muskrats — Plural form of muskrat.
- mustards — Plural form of mustard.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide