8-letter words containing u, n, c, r
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- furuncle — boil2 .
- goncourt — Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- hurcheon — a hedgehog.
- incisura — (anatomy) a notch or indent.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- incumber — encumber.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- inductor — Also called inductance. Electricity. a coil used to introduce inductance into an electric circuit.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- intercur — (obsolete, intransitive) To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
- intercut — to cut from one type of shot to another, as from a long shot to a closeup.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- kerchunk — A sudden heavy blow or thump.
- knuckler — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- lacunars — Plural form of lacunar.
- lacunary — Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of a lacuna.
- launcher — a person or thing that launches.
- laurence — a male given name, form of Lawrence.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- lurching — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- macruran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Macrura, comprising the lobsters, crayfishes, shrimps, and prawns.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- mungcorn — a mixture of grains, esp wheat and rye
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- nip curn — a tightfisted woman
- 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.
- nucellar — Of or pertaining to the nucellus.
- nuciform — having the shape of a nut; nut-shaped.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- nuraghic — relating to the Bronze Age Sardinian civilization that is distinguished by nuraghe
- nurhachi — 1559–1626, Manchurian leader, who unified the Manchurian state and began (1618) the Manchurian conquest of China
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- occuring — Misspelling of occurring, the present participle of occur.