8-letter words containing ure
- curettes — Plural form of curette.
- cyanuret — cyanide
- cynosure — a person or thing that attracts notice, esp because of its brilliance or beauty
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentures — Dentures are artificial teeth worn by people who no longer have all their own teeth.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- devoured — Simple past tense and past participle of devour.
- devourer — to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- discured — Simple past tense and past participle of discure.
- disinure — to render unaccustomed
- diuresis — increased discharge of urine.
- diuretic — increasing the volume of the urine excreted, as by a medicinal substance.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- duressor — a person who subjects another to duress.
- enacture — an enactment
- encolure — The neck of a horse.
- endureth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of endure.
- enuresis — Involuntary urination, especially by children at night.
- enuretic — Pertaining to, or afflicted by, enuresis; tending to wet the bed.
- epicures — Plural form of epicure.
- erasures — Plural form of erasure.
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- failures — Plural form of failure.
- favoured — Treated or regarded with partiality.
- favourer — Alternative form of favorer.
- featured — made a feature or highlight; given prominence: a featured article; a featured actor.
- features — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- filature — the act of forming into threads.
- fissured — Simple past tense and past participle of fissure.
- fissures — Plural form of fissure.
- fixature — anything that holds an object in place, whether by physical or chemical means
- fixtured — Simple past tense and past participle of fixture.
- fixtures — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
- flexures — Plural form of flexure.
- for sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- geniture — birth; generation.
- gestured — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- gestures — Make a gesture.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- hatchure — Alternative form of hachure.
- honoured — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honouree — One who receives an honour or award.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.