8-letter words containing u, r, a, n
- quarrion — A cockatiel, Nymphicus hollandicus.
- quartern — a quarter, or a fourth part, especially of certain weights and measures, as of a pound, ounce, peck, or pint.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- 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).
- 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).
- ramanuja — 1017–1134, Indian leader of the Shri-Vaishnavite sect.
- rambutan — the bright-red oval fruit of a Malayan, sapindaceous tree, Nephelium lappaceum, covered with soft spines, or hairs, and having a subacid taste.
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ranarium — a place for keeping or rearing frogs
- rancagua — a city in central Chile.
- rapa nui — Easter Island.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- 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.
- rigaudon — rigadoon.
- rinceaux — an ornamental foliate or floral motif.
- rosamund — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “horse” and “protection.”.
- roumania — Romania.
- 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
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- run away — 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 back — to carry (a football) toward the opponent's goal, as after receiving a kickoff
- run past — To run something past someone means the same as to run it by them.
- run-flat — (of an automobile tire) constructed so as not to deflate completely after a puncture so that a motorist can still drive the vehicle for some distance.
- runabout — a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
- 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.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- ryukyuan — a native or inhabitant of Ryukyu.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- saturant — something that causes saturation.