8-letter words containing s, a, u, r
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- kurosawa — Akira [ah-kee-rah] /ɑˈki rɑ/ (Show IPA), 1910–1998, Japanese film director.
- kursaals — Plural form of kursaal.
- labarums — Plural form of labarum.
- laborous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- labrusca — of or derived from the North American fox grape, Vitis labrusca.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacunars — Plural form of lacunar.
- lansbury — George. 1859–1940, British Labour politician, who led the Labour Party in opposition (1931–35). A committed pacifist, he resigned over the party's reaction to Mussolini's seizure of Ethiopia
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larousse — Pierre Athanase [pyer a-ta-nahz] /pyɛr a taˈnɑz/ (Show IPA), 1817–75, French grammarian, lexicographer, and encyclopedist.
- lathyrus — a genus of leguminous climbing plants that includes the sweet pea
- laughers — Plural form of laugher.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laurasia — a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia.
- leaguers — Plural form of leaguer.
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- luristan — a mountainous region in W Iran.
- lustrate — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- madurese — a member of a people native to the island of Madura and also inhabiting the northeastern coast of Java.
- maiasaur — a large hadrosaur, Maiasaura peeblesorum, that is thought to have cared for its young.
- mamurius — a smith who made 11 copies of the Ancile to prevent thieves from recognizing the original.
- manhours — Plural form of manhour.
- manjusri — a Bodhisattva personifying wisdom.
- marabous — Plural form of marabou.
- marasmus — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- marquees — Plural form of marquee.
- marquesa — A Spanish marchioness.
- marquess — marquee (def 3).
- marquise — the wife or widow of a marquis.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- masquers — Plural form of masquer.
- masseurs — Plural form of masseur.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- masurium — technetium
- maturers — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturest — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- muralism — an artistic movement identified chiefly with the Mexican painters José Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros and exemplified by their grand-scale, narrative murals on humanitarian, social, and political themes.
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- murmansk — an ice-free seaport and railroad terminus in the NW Russian Federation, on the Murman Coast.
- murrains — Plural form of murrain.
- muscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas