8-letter words containing u, n, o, r, t
- rain-out — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- re-count — to count again.
- rebutton — to button (a garment, etc) again
- rent out — hire, offer for rental
- ring out — to give forth a clear resonant sound, as a bell when struck: The doorbell rang twice.
- riot gun — a gun, especially a shotgun with a short barrel, for quelling riots rather than inflicting serious injury.
- ritenuto — held back momentarily
- round to — to turn the bow of a vessel into the wind
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- routeing — (networking) (US "routing") /roo'ting/ The process, performed by a router, of selecting the correct interface and next hop for a packet being forwarded. This is the British and international standard spelling. See also Exterior Gateway Protocol, Interior Gateway Protocol.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- routines — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- rubstone — a stone, especially a whetstone, used for polishing or sharpening.
- ructions — disturbance
- run into — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run riot — a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- runabout — a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sturgeon — any of various large fishes of the family Acipenseridae, inhabiting fresh and salt North Temperate waters, valued for their flesh and as a source of caviar and isinglass: A. brevirostrum, of the Atlantic coast, is endangered.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- surmount — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.
- torquing — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- tourneur — Cyril, 1575?–1626, English dramatist.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- tournure — an outline or contour
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- trigonum — trigone.
- trouncer — a person who trounces someone or something
- trueborn — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- trunnion — either of the two cylindrical projections on a cannon, one on each side for supporting the cannon on its carriage.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- turcoman — Turkoman.
- turingol — (language) A high-level language for programming Turing Machines by Donald Knuth. It was the subject of the first construction of a nontrivial attribute grammar.
- turkoman — a member of a Turkish people consisting of a group of tribes that inhabit the region near the Aral Sea and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn out — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn-off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turncoat — a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.
- turncock — (formerly) an official employed to turn on the water for the mains supply
- turndown — that is or may be turned down; folded or doubled down: a turndown collar.
- turnover — an act or result of turning over; upset.
- turnsole — any of several plants regarded as turning with the movement of the sun.