8-letter words containing w, r, u
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- nutbrown — dark brown, as many nuts when ripe.
- our town — a play (1938) by Thornton Wilder.
- out-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- outfrown — to outdo in frowning; silence, abash, or subdue by frowning.
- outgrown — to grow too large for: to outgrow one's clothes.
- outgrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgrow.
- outlawry — the act or process of outlawing.
- outpower — to have more power than or defeat by power
- outswear — to outdo in swearing.
- outthrow — to throw out or extend: His arms were outthrown in greeting.
- outtower — to tower over
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- outweary — to exhaust completely
- outwhirl — to surpass at whirling
- outworks — Plural form of outwork.
- outworld — (in science fiction) an outlying or alien planet.
- outworth — to be more valuable than
- outwrest — to pull out or get possession of forcibly; extort
- outwrite — to write more or better than.
- owerloup — an encroachment
- power up — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- powerful — physically strong, as a person: a large, powerful athlete.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- rawlplug — a short fibre or plastic tube used to provide a fixing in a wall for a screw
- routeway — a track, road, waterway, etc, used as a route to somewhere
- rub down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rub-down — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- rumbelow — a nonsense word used in the refrain of certain sea shanties
- 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 down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- run with — 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-down — fatigued; weary; exhausted.
- rushwork — the handicraft of making objects woven of rushes.
- russwurm — John Brown, 1799–1851, Jamaican-born journalist in the U.S. and (after 1829) journalist and statesman in Liberia.
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- squawker — to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world