8-letter words containing u, l, t, r
- muralist — an artist who paints murals, especially an artist associated with muralism.
- murrelet — any of several small, chunky diving birds of the family Alcidae, of North Pacific coasts.
- naturall — Obsolete spelling of natural.
- naturals — Plural form of natural.
- neutrals — Plural form of neutral.
- ngultrum — a paper money, cupronickel coin, and monetary unit of Bhutan, equal to 100 chetrums.
- nurtural — relating to, resulting from, or because of nurture
- occulter — Any object, natural or man-made, that blocks the light of an object from an observer, typically used in reference to astronomical events.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outflare — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- outglare — (transitive) To surpass or outdo in glaring.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outliers — something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands: The small factory was an outlier, and unproductive, so the corporation sold it off to private owners who were able to make it profitable.
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outliver — (obsolete) A survivor.
- outrival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
- pastural — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- pictural — a picture
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- polluter — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- portugal — a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Capital: Lisbon.
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulmotor — an apparatus for pumping oxygen into the lungs during artificial respiration
- pulpiter — a preacher
- pulpitry — the art of delivering sermons
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
- pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.
- rebuttal — an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
- reel out — to unwind from a reel
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- relucent — shining; bright.
- requital — the act of requiting.