8-letter words containing u, s, r, i
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- surprint — to print over with additional marks or matter; overprint.
- surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- surtitle — supertitle.
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- survived — to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His wife survived him. He survived the operation.
- survivor — a person or thing that survives.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- timorous — full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
- tiramisu — an Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
- tortious — of the nature of or pertaining to a tort.
- tourista — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- touristy — pertaining to or characteristic of tourists: a touristy attitude.
- tournois — (of coins) minted in Tours, France: livre tournois.
- tristful — full of sadness; sorrowful.
- truistic — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- trumpism — the policies advocated by Donald Trump, especially those involving a rejection of the current political establishment and the vigorous pursuit of American national interests
- trussing — Civil Engineering, Building Trades. any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- trusting — Law. of or relating to trusts or a trust.
- turistas — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
- turmoils — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
- turnskin — (in folklore) a creature that can change its skin, esp a werewolf
- turnspit — a spit that rotates or can be rotated.
- tutorism — the office or duties of a tutor
- ultraism — extremism.
- ultraist — extremism.
- unarisen — not having risen
- unitrust — a charitable trust which pays the beneficiary a fixed percentage of the value of the assets each year. This value is taken as the fair market value of those assets
- universe — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- unprison — to release from prison.
- unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- unrinsed — (of dishes, utensils, etc) not rinsed or washed with water
- unsicker — unsafe; untrustworthy.
- unstring — to deprive of strings: to unstring a violin.
- untruism — something that is false; an untrue statement
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- uprising — an act of rising up.
- upspring — to spring up.
- upstairs — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- urbanise — to make or cause to become urban, as a locality.
- urbanism — the way of life of people who live in a large city.
- urbanist — a person who is a specialist in urban planning.
- ursiform — having the form of a bear; bear-shaped: the ursiform koala.
- ursuline — Roman Catholic Church. a member of an order of nuns founded at Brescia, Italy, about 1537, devoted to teaching.
- urushiol — a toxic, liquid, catechol derivative, the active irritant principle in several species of the plant genus Rhus, as in poison ivy.