8-letter words containing r, u, n, i
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- dubliner — Ireland; magazine
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- eburnine — (rare) Like ivory.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- edinburg — a city in S Texas.
- enduring — Continuing or long-lasting.
- enquired — Simple past tense and past participle of enquire.
- enquirer — Alternative form of inquirer.
- enquires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enquire.
- ensuring — Present participle of ensure.
- enuresis — Involuntary urination, especially by children at night.
- enuretic — Pertaining to, or afflicted by, enuresis; tending to wet the bed.
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- eructing — Present participle of eruct.
- erupting — Present participle of erupt.
- eruption — An act or instance of erupting.
- eryngium — (botany) Any of the genus Eryngium of umbelliferous plants resembling thistles.
- esurient — Hungry or greedy.
- euchring — Present participle of euchre.
- eurasian — Eurasian means concerned with or relating to both Europe and Asia.
- feruling — Present participle of ferule.
- figurant — a ballet dancer who does not perform solo.
- figurine — a small ornamental figure of pottery, metal, plastic, etc.; statuette.
- figuring — Present participle of figure.
- finsbury — former metropolitan borough of EC London, now part of Islington
- flouring — Present participle of flour.
- fluorian — (geology) containing fluorine.
- fluorine — the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.
- flurting — Present participle of flurt.
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- fraulein — an unmarried woman.
- freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friulian — a Rhaeto-Romanic dialect spoken by about half a million people of the plains of extreme NE Italy.
- frugging — a dance deriving from the twist.
- fruiting — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- fruition — attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment: After years of hard work she finally brought her idea to full fruition.
- fun fair — an amusement park.
- furibund — Choleric, irate, propense to being furious.
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- furriner — a foreigner.
- futanari — (anime, manga, uncountable) A genre of Japanese anime or manga featuring hermaphrodite characters, generally with female bodies plus a penis.
- geniture — birth; generation.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- ginsburg — Ruth Bader [bey-der] /ˈbeɪ dər/ (Show IPA), born 1933, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993.
- ginzburg — Natalia (nataˈliːa). 1916–91, Italian writer and dramatist. Her books include The Road to the City (1942), Voices in the Evening (1961), and Family Sayings (1963)
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.