8-letter words containing t, o, u, r
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lustrous — having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
- lustwort — The sundew.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- motorbus — a passenger bus powered by a motor.
- motorium — the area of the brain or nervous system involved in movement
- moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- mouterer — a miller who receives payment for grinding corn
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- muskroot — The root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant, formerly used in medicine and as a substitute for musk.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- neutrons — Plural form of neutron.
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- 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.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- nordunet — (networking, body) (Nordic Universities Network?) A collaboration between the national research networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It provides international access for these countries.
- northrup — a male given name.
- northumb — Northumberland
- nostrums — a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
- not true — unbelievable; remarkable
- notturno — an 18th-century composition for chamber orchestra, similar to a serenade or a divertimento.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtruded — Simple past tense and past participle of obtrude.
- obtruder — One who obtrudes.
- obtrudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtrude.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- occulter — Any object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.
- oestrous — estrous.