8-letter words containing r, a, u
- bullyrag — to bully, esp by means of cruel practical jokes
- bummaree — a dealer at Billingsgate fish market
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- burglary — If someone commits a burglary, they enter a building by force and steal things. Burglary is the act of doing this.
- burgrave — the military governor of a German town or castle, esp in the 12th and 13th centuries
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burnable — able to be burned
- burramys — the very rare mountain pigmy possum, Burramys parvus, of Australia. It is about the size of a rat and restricted in habitat to very high altitudes, mainly Mt Hotham, Victoria. Until 1966 it was known only as a fossil
- butt bra — an undergarment for supporting the buttocks
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- calcular — relating to calculus
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cameroun — Cameroon
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carburet — to combine or mix (a gas) with carbon or carbon compounds
- carcajou — wolverine
- card-cut — having a fretwork pattern in low relief: card-cut woodwork.
- carducci — Giosuè (dʒozuˈɛ). 1835–1907, Italian poet: Nobel prize for literature 1906
- carefull — Obsolete spelling of careful.
- cariacou — any of several deer of the American subgenus Cariacus
- caribous — Plural form of caribou.
- carinula — a small carina.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- carneous — fleshy
- carousal — a merry drinking party
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carousel — At an airport, a carousel is a moving surface from which passengers can collect their luggage.
- carouser — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carouse.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- carucage — the tax due on a carucate
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.