8-letter words containing r, o, u, s
- gourmets — Plural form of gourmet.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- grevious — Misspelling of grievous.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseous — gray; pearl-gray.
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grousers — Plural form of grouser.
- grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- grunions — Plural form of grunion.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- gunrooms — Plural form of gunroom.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- homburgs — Plural form of homburg.
- honduras — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
- honorius — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honorous — Honorable, honourable.
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- hounders — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorous — Archaic. moist; wet.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- intortus — (of a cirrus cloud) having very irregular filaments that often look entangled.
- iridious — (chemistry) containing trivalent iridium.
- iris-out — the gradual disappearance of an image or scene through a contracting circle.
- iroquois — a member of a North American Indian confederacy, the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and later the Tuscaroras.
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- journals — Plural form of journal.
- journeys — Plural form of journey.
- journies — Plural form of journy.
- jousters — Plural form of jouster.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.