8-letter words containing u, r, a, n
- aularian — a student at an English university who belongs to a hall as opposed to a college
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- aurelian — Latin name Lucius Domitius Aurelianus. ?212–275 ad, Roman emperor (270–275), who conquered Palmyra (273) and restored political unity to the Roman Empire
- aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- aurorean — of or resembling dawn
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- auvergne — a region of S central France: largely mountainous, rising over 1800 m (6000 ft)
- aventure — (obsolete) Accident; chance; adventure.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- back run — a period during which a particular process, as the flow of materials in manufacturing, is reversed.
- backburn — to clear (an area of scrub, bush, etc) by creating a new fire that burns in the opposite direction to the line of advancing fire
- baikonur — a launching site for spacecraft in central Kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the Soviet space programme, now leased from Kazakhstan by Russia
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- bat turn — a sharp and sudden change in an aircraft's heading.
- baudrons — a cat
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- binaural — relating to, having, or hearing with both ears
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- braeburn — a variety of eating apple from New Zealand having sweet flesh and green and red skin
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- bran tub — (in Britain) a tub containing bran in which small wrapped gifts are hidden, used at parties, fairs, etc
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- braunite — a brown or black mineral that consists of manganese oxide and silicate and is a source of manganese. Formula: 3Mn2O3.MnSiO3
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- brugmann — (Friedrich) Karl [free-drik kahrl;; German free-drikh kahrl] /ˈfri drɪk kɑrl;; German ˈfri drɪx kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1849–1919, German philologist.
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- burn bag — a special bag into which discarded secret or sensitive documents are placed for burning.
- burnable — able to be burned
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cameroun — Cameroon
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- carinula — a small carina.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- carneous — fleshy
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- centaury — any Eurasian plant of the genus Centaurium, esp C. erythraea, having purplish-pink flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal properties: family Gentianaceae
- cernauti — a city in SW Ukraine, on the Prut River: formerly in Romania.
- cerulean — a deep blue colour; azure
- chanteur — a male singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.