8-letter words containing u
- abrupted — Simple past tense and past participle of abrupt.
- abruptly — sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- absolute — Absolute means total and complete.
- abstrude — (transitive) To thrust away.
- abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- absurder — Comparative form of absurd.
- absurdly — utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
- absurdum — An illogical conclusion or state. (First attested in the mid 19th century.).
- abu zaby — Abu Dhabi
- abu-bakr — a.d. 573-634; successor of Mohammed & 1st caliph of Islam ( a.d. 632-634): father of Aisha
- abu-bekr — 573–634 ad, companion and father-in-law of Mohammed; the first caliph of Islam
- abumeron — Avenzoar.
- abundant — Something that is abundant is present in large quantities.
- abusable — able to be abused
- abuseful — (rare) Full of abuse; abusive.
- abutilon — any shrub or herbaceous plant of the malvaceous genus Abutilon, such as the flowering maple, that have showy white, yellow, or red flowers
- abutment — the state or process of abutting
- abuttals — the boundaries of a plot of land where it abuts against other property
- abutters — Plural form of abutter.
- abutting — to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border (often followed by on, upon, or against): This piece of land abuts on a street.
- ac and u — Association of Colleges and Universities.
- academus — an Arcadian whose estate became a meeting place for Athenian philosophers.
- acanthus — any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers: family Acanthaceae
- acapulco — a port and resort in SW Mexico, in Guerrero state. Pop: 761 000 (2005 est)
- acarigua — city in NW Venezuela: pop. 126,000
- acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
- acaudate — (biology, zoology) Tailless.
- acauline — having no stem
- accismus — (rhetoric) Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
- accouche — (transitive) To aid in an accouchement.
- accounts — a chronological list of debits and credits relating to a specified asset, liability, expense, or income of a business and forming part of the ledger
- accouter — to outfit; equip, esp. for military service
- accoutre — to provide with equipment or dress, esp military
- accruals — Plural form of accrual.
- accruing — to happen or result as a natural growth, addition, etc.
- accuracy — The accuracy of information or measurements is their quality of being true or correct, even in small details.
- accurate — careful and exact
- accurize — to improve the accuracy of (a firearm).
- accursed — Some people use accursed to describe something which they are very annoyed about.
- accusant — a person who accuses or blames
- accuseds — charged with a crime, wrongdoing, fault, etc.: the accused boy.
- accusers — Plural form of accuser.
- accusing — If you look at someone with an accusing expression or speak to them in an accusing tone of voice, you are showing that you think they have done something wrong.
- accusive — Accusative.
- accustom — If you accustom yourself or another person to something, you make yourself or them become used to it.
- accutron — a type of watch in which the balance wheel and hairspring are replaced by a tuning fork kept in vibration by a tiny internal battery
- acervuli — Plural form of acervulus.
- ach-laut — the voiceless velar fricative sound that is written as ch in Scottish loch or in German ach, often allophonic with the ich-laut
- achelous — a river god who changed into a snake and a bull while fighting Hercules but was defeated when Hercules broke off one of his horns
- achenium — (botany) achene.