8-letter words containing u, r, s, o
- outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
- ovarious — belonging or relating to eggs, or consisting of eggs
- over-use — to use excessively
- overbusy — Excessively busy.
- overbuys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbuy.
- overdubs — Plural form of overdub.
- overdust — to dust too much
- overjust — too just
- overlush — excessively lush
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- oversoul — (especially in transcendentalism) a supreme reality or mind; the spiritual unity of all being.
- oversuds — to produce too much lather
- oversure — too sure (so as to be presumptuous)
- overused — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
- parcours — parcourse.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- pliosaur — a large dinosaur with a short neck
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- porously — full of pores.
- postburn — after injury from burns
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- postural — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- poxvirus — any of a group of large, brick-shaped DNA-containing viruses that infect humans and other animals, including the viruses of smallpox and various other poxes.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- prefocus — to focus (something) in advance
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- profuser — someone or something that is very wasteful of money
- pronouns — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proudish — rather proud
- provirus — a viral form that is incorporated into the genetic material of a host cell.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- pyrrhous — (of a person's complexion) ruddy or reddish
- quaestor — one of two subordinates of the consuls serving as public prosecutors in certain criminal cases.
- racemous — racemose.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- ravenous — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- recourse — access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice.
- refusion — a new or further fusion
- reovirus — any large virus of the family Reoviridae, having double-stranded RNA and a polyhedral capsid, including those causing infantile gastroenteritis.
- repousse — (of a design) raised in relief by hammering on the reverse side.