8-letter words containing r, o, u, n, c
- countrie — Obsolete spelling of country.
- couperin — François (frɑ̃swa). 1668–1733, French composer, noted for his harpsichord suites and organ music
- couponer — a person who seeks out or saves discount coupons, as for buying grocery items.
- courante — an old dance in quick triple time
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- coursing — Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- courtney — a feminine and masculine name
- cousinry — a collection of cousins
- crankous — fretful; cranky
- croutons — Plural form of crouton.
- crumhorn — a medieval woodwind instrument of bass pitch, consisting of an almost cylindrical tube curving upwards and blown through a double reed covered by a pierced cap
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cryonaut — a person whose dead body has been preserved by the technique of cryonics.
- cumarone — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C 8H 6O
- cuniform — Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- decurion — a local councillor
- encolour — to give a colour to
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nocturne — a piece appropriate to the night or evening.
- nocturns — Plural form of nocturn.
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outscorn — to defy with scorn
- re-count — to count again.
- renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- rhonchus — a wheezing or snoring sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by an accumulation of mucus or other material.
- ructions — disturbance
- scornful — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrounge — to borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- scroungy — given to or characterized by scrounging.
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something