8-letter words containing r, a, u
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autarchy — unlimited rule; autocracy
- autarkic — the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autocrat — An autocrat is a person in authority who has complete power.
- autofire — (video games) A feature on a joystick that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
- autogiro — a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
- autograf — (tool) A system for describing bar charts.
- autogyro — autogiro
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- autozero — Autozeroing.
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- auxiliar — (obsolete) auxiliary.
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- avicular — of or relating to small birds
- avoucher — a person who avouches
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- azoturia — the condition of having excess nitrogen in the urine
- azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
- babirusa — a wild pig, Babyrousa babyrussa, inhabiting marshy forests in Indonesia. It has an almost hairless wrinkled skin and enormous curved canine teeth
- babruysk — a city in SE Belarus, in Europe, SE of Minsk.
- back rub — a form of massage in which the masseur rubs one's back
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire
- backrush — the return of water seaward, down the foreshore of a beach, following the uprush of a wave.
- baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
- balaguer — Joaquin (ˈjoːakɪn). 1907–2002, Dominican statesman; president of the Dominican Republic (1960–62, 1966–78, 1986–96)
- balisaur — an Indian animal, Arctonyx collaris, resembling a badger
- baluster — any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- barbecue — A barbecue is a piece of equipment which you use for cooking on in the open air.
- barbeque — barbecue
- barbules — Plural form of barbule.
- barbusse — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1873–1935, French novelist and poet. His novels include L'Enfer (1908) and Le Feu (1916), reflecting the horror of World War I
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- baroques — (often initial capital letter) of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.
- barosaur — a large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, similar to the diplodocus
- barouche — a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, popular in the 19th century, having a retractable hood over the rear half, seats inside for two couples facing each other, and a driver's seat outside at the front
- barrault — Jean-Louis (ʒɑ̃lwi). 1910–94, French actor and director, noted particularly as a mime
- barrulet — a narrow band across a heraldic shield, taking up one twentieth of the shield's height
- bat turn — a sharp and sudden change in an aircraft's heading.
- bateleur — a common African eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus, having a very short tail.
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- baudrons — a cat
- bayreuth — a city in E Germany, in NE Bavaria: home and burial place of Richard Wagner; annual festivals of his music. Pop: 74 818 (2003 est)
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.