8-letter words containing u, r, a, n
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar
- nonurban — Not urban.
- nucellar — Of or pertaining to the nucellus.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- numerate — to represent numbers by symbols.
- nummular — pertaining to coins or money; nummary.
- 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
- nuristan — a mountainous region in NE Afghanistan. 5000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km).
- nurtural — relating to, resulting from, or because of nurture
- nutarian — a person whose food intake consists chiefly of nuts or nut-based products or dishes
- nutgrass — A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outrance — the utmost extremity.
- outrange — to have a longer or greater range than.
- outranks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outrank.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- parvenue — a woman who, having risen socially or economically, is considered to be an upstart or to lack the appropriate refinement for her new position
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- prussian — of or relating to Prussia or its inhabitants.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- puritans — 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.
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pursuant — proceeding after; following (usually followed by to): Pursuant to his studies he took a job in an office.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quarnero — Gulf of, an arm of the Adriatic Sea, in Croatia.
- quarrian — a cockatiel, Leptolophus hollandicus, of scrub and woodland regions of inland Australia, that feeds on seeds and grasses