8-letter words containing r, e, t, u
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beer gut — A beer gut is the same as a beer belly.
- beyrouth — Beirut.
- bleuatre — blueish
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.
- bourtree — the elder-tree
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brunette — A brunette is a white-skinned woman or girl with dark brown hair.
- budgeter — a person who budgets
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burletta — a type of comic opera
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- buttered — having had butter spread over or applied to it
- buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
- butyrate — any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–
- 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
- carucate — the area of land an oxen team could plough in a year
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- ceinture — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celature — the art of embossing metal.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chubster — An overweight person.
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- circulet — Obsolete form of circlet.
- citreous — of a greenish-yellow colour; citron
- citruses — Plural form of citrus.
- clearcut — Alternative spelling of clear cut.
- clearout — Alternative form of clear-out.
- clotures — Plural form of cloture.
- clusters — Plural form of cluster.
- clustery — Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
- clutcher — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- cluttery — full of clutter
- cokernut — coconut.
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- confuter — A person who confutes.
- construe — If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.