8-letter words containing r, u, i, n, s
- resupine — lying on the back; supine.
- rosinous — rosiny
- roundish — somewhat round: a roundish man; roundish furniture.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- ructions — disturbance
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- seigneur — a lord, especially a feudal lord.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- shuriken — a martial-arts weapon usually in the shape of a star or cross with sharp protruding edges, thrown with a spin towards the target
- signieur — a lord
- silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skurfing — skateboarding.
- slurring — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- souvenir — a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spurring — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- squireen — the landowner of a small estate; a squire of a small domain.
- squiring — (in England) a country gentleman, especially the chief landed proprietor in a district.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- sugaring — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- sundries — miscellaneous items
- sundrily — in sundry or distinct ways; variously
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surprint — to print over with additional marks or matter; overprint.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- turnskin — (in folklore) a creature that can change its skin, esp a werewolf
- turnspit — a spit that rotates or can be rotated.
- unarisen — not having risen
- unitrust — a charitable trust which pays the beneficiary a fixed percentage of the value of the assets each year. This value is taken as the fair market value of those assets
- universe — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- unprison — to release from prison.
- unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- unrinsed — (of dishes, utensils, etc) not rinsed or washed with water