8-letter words containing o, u, t, r, a
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- educator — a person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- emulator — A person or thing that emulates.
- equators — Plural form of equator.
- eurocrat — European Union official
- euromart — European Economic Community
- eurostar — a high speed train that connects London and Kent in the UK with Paris and Lille in France and Brussels in Belgium by crossing the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel
- eurostat — an organization within the European Union that collects and collates statistical information relating to member states
- farm out — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- foulmart — the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- foumarts — Plural form of foumart.
- freakout — A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
- fumatory — of or relating to smoke, especially tobacco smoke, or to a place for smoking.
- fur coat — overcoat covered with animal fur
- gratious — Obsolete form of gracious.
- hear out — listen to the end
- horatius — (Publius Horatius Cocles) Roman Legend. a hero celebrated for his defense of the bridge over the Tiber against the Etruscans.
- hortulan — (obsolete) Belonging to a garden.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- juratory — pertaining to, constituting, or expressed in an oath.
- kabouter — (Dutch mythology) A tiny folkloric man who traditionally wears a pointy red hat, lives in harmony with nature and resides in mushrooms, similar to a gnome, leprechaun or a smurf.
- karafuto — Japanese name of Sakhalin.
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- laudator — One who lauds.
- lawcourt — a court of law
- marabout — Islam. a hermit or holy man, especially in N Africa, often wielding political power and credited with supernatural powers. the tomb or shrine of such a man.
- mark out — delineate, define: boundaries
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mortuary — funeral home.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- mutatory — subject to change; variable
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nocturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- nugatory — of no real value; trifling; worthless.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- obituary — a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
- obturate — to stop up; close.
- ossature — the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
- out tray — An out tray is a shallow container used in offices to put letters and documents in when they have been dealt with and are ready to be sent somewhere else. Compare in tray.
- out-year — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outargue — to outdo or defeat in arguing: That man could outargue the devil himself.
- outboard — located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.
- outbrave — to stand up to; face defiantly: to outbrave charges of misconduct.
- outbrawl — to defeat in a brawl