8-letter words containing u, l, r
- cuddlier — suitable for or inviting cuddling: a cuddly teddy bear.
- cudgeler — One who beats with a cudgel.
- culinary — Culinary means concerned with cooking.
- culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cultivar — a variety of a plant that was produced from a natural species and is maintained by cultivation
- cultrate — shaped like a knife blade
- cultural — Cultural means relating to a particular society and its ideas, customs, and art.
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- culverin — a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
- culverts — Plural form of culvert.
- curbable — able to be curbed or restrained
- curbless — with no curb or restraint
- curculio — any of various American weevils, esp Conotrachelus nenuphar (plum curculio), a pest of fruit trees
- curdling — Present participle of curdle.
- cure-all — A cure-all is something that is believed, usually wrongly, to be able to solve all the problems someone or something has, or to cure a wide range of illnesses.
- cureless — a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy.
- curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
- curlycue — an ornamental, fancy curl or twist, as in a signature.
- curricle — a two-wheeled open carriage drawn by two horses side by side
- cursedly — In a cursed manner; miserably.
- curseful — (archaic) horrendous, horrific.
- curtails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curtail.
- curtalax — cutlass.
- curvital — of or relating to curvature, esp in geometry
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- delbruck — Max. 1906–81, US molecular biologist, born in Germany. Noted for his work on bacteriophages, he shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1969
- delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delubrum — a shrine or sanctuary
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- deluster — remove the lustre from
- delustre — to remove the lustre from (something)
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- desulfur — to free from sulfur; desulfurize.
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- diluters — Plural form of diluter.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dirgeful — Having the qualities of a dirge; moaning.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- divulger — One who divulges something.
- doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
- dolorous — full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.