8-letter words containing rs
- asperser — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- aspirers — to long, aim, or seek ambitiously; be eagerly desirous, especially for something great or of high value (usually followed by to, after, or an infinitive): to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.
- assayers — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assurers — Plural form of assurer.
- at first — You use at first when you are talking about what happens in the early stages of an event or experience, or just after something else has happened, in contrast to what happens later.
- at worst — under the worst circumstances; at the greatest disadvantage
- ateliers — Plural form of atelier.
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- augurers — Plural form of augurer.
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- aviators — Plural form of aviator.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- babblers — Plural form of babbler.
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.
- barriers — anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like: People may pass through the barrier only when their train is announced.
- barspoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
- barstool — a stool or seat, usually high and having a round, cushioned top, of a type often used for seating customers at a bar.
- bathorse — a horse which carries a military officer's baggage; a military packhorse
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- battlers — Plural form of battler.
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- bearskin — A bearskin is a tall fur hat that is worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.
- beersies — beers
- bejabers — by Jesus!
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- blinkers — If you describe someone as wearing blinkers, you think that they have a narrow point of view and are not taking other people's opinions into account.
- bloomers — Bloomers are an old-fashioned kind of women's underwear which consists of wide, loose trousers gathered at the knees.
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- boodlers — the lot, pack, or crowd: Send the whole boodle back to the factory.
- boursier — a foundation level scholar
- braggers — a person who brags.
- brasiers — a person who makes articles of brass.
- brazers' — to unite (metal objects) at high temperatures by applying any of various nonferrous solders.
- bullbars — large protective metal grille on the front of some vehicles, esp four-wheel-drive vehicles
- bumblers — to bungle or blunder awkwardly; muddle: He somehow bumbled through two years of college.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bursitis — inflammation of a bursa, esp one in the shoulder joint
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- calibers — Plural form of caliber.
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.