8-letter words containing u, n, r, e, a
- rathenau — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1867–1922, German industrialist, writer, and statesman.
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- renature — to restore (a denatured substance) to its former, natural state.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- revenual — of or relating to revenue
- rheingau — a small wine-growing region in Hesse, in central Germany, on the Rhine.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- rugbeian — of or relating to Rugby School
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- runagate — a fugitive or runaway.
- runnable — 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.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- senarius — a Latin verse of six feet, especially an iambic trimeter.
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- sun bear — a small bear, Helarctos malayanus, of tropical forests in S and SE Asia, having a black coat and a yellowish snout and feeding mostly on honey and insects
- sun gear — (in an epicyclic train) the central gear around which the planet gears revolve.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- touraine — a former province in W France. Capital: Tours.
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- truename — (operating system) An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
- truncate — to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short: Truncate detailed explanations.
- turbaned — a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
- turnable — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- ultranet — a net in a topological space that is residually in every set or its complement in the space.
- unadored — not adored, revered, or worshipped
- unagreed — arranged or set by common consent: They met at the agreed time.
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches