7-letter words containing u, r, a, n
- nuraghe — any of the large, tower-shaped, prehistoric stone structures found in Sardinia and dating from the second millennium b.c. to the Roman conquest.
- nutfarm — (informal) An insane asylum.
- nyungar — an Australian Aboriginal language spoken over a large area of southwest Western Australia, including Perth and Albany.
- organum — an organon.
- ouranos — Uranus (def 2).
- outearn — to earn more than
- outrang — simple past tense of outring.
- outrank — to have a higher rank than: A major outranks a captain in the army.
- pandour — History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
- pandura — a Graeco-Roman stringed instrument, similar to a lute
- pandure — bandore.
- panurge — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- quandry — Misspelling of quandary.
- quartan — (of a fever, ague, etc.) characterized by paroxysms that recur every fourth day, both days of consecutive occurrence being counted.
- quatrin — (obsolete) Any of several small, copper coins, similar to a farthing, in any of several countries.
- quinary — pertaining to or consisting of five.
- qur--an — Koran.
- quranic — Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
- raeburn — Sir Henry, 1756–1823, Scottish painter.
- rainout — a contest, performance, or the like, that has been rained out.
- rancour — bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
- rangpur — a variety of mandarin orange, bearing a tart fruit.
- rantoul — a city in E Illinois.
- ranular — of or relating to a ranula
- rat run — A rat run is a small street which drivers use during busy times in order to avoid heavy traffic on the main roads.
- raunchy — vulgar or smutty; crude; earthy; obscene: a raunchy joke.
- ray gun — a gun that can fire bursts of usually destructive or lethal rays: a science fiction novel whose hero has a ray gun made of gold.
- rayburn — Sam, 1882–1961, U.S. lawyer and political leader: Speaker of the House 1940–47, 1949–53, 1955–61.
- renault — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1843–1918, French jurist: Nobel Peace Prize 1907.
- reynaud — Paul [pawl] /pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1878–1966, French statesman: premier 1940.
- rhamnus — a member of the Rhamnus genus of trees and shrubs known as buckthorn
- rinceau — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- romaunt — a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- rondeau — Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
- rotunda — a round building, especially one with a dome.
- rouhani — Hassan (hæˈsɑːn). born 1948, Iranian politician; president of Iran from 2013
- rousant — rising
- ruckman — a person who plays in the ruck
- ruffian — a tough, lawless person; roughneck; bully.
- ruinate — to ruin.
- rumania — Romania.
- ruminal — (of an animal) ruminant
- runanga — a Māori assembly or council
- runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
- runback — Football. a run made by a player toward the goal line of the opponents after receiving a kick, intercepting a pass, or recovering an opponent's fumble. the distance covered in making such a run.
- rundale — (formerly) the name given, esp in Ireland and earlier in Scotland, to the system of land tenure in which each land-holder had several strips of land that were not contiguous