6-letter words containing a, r, u
- plural — consisting of, containing, or pertaining to more than one.
- prague — a republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.
- pruina — a woolly white covering on some lichens
- prutah — a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.
- pujari — a Hindu priest
- pulsar — Astronomy. one of several hundred known celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars, that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
- pulwar — a light Indian river boat used for carrying cargo
- purace — an active volcano in SW Colombia. 15,603 feet (4756 meters).
- purana — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purdah — the seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus.
- pyuria — the presence of pus in the urine.
- quadr- — quadri-
- quadra — a small molding, as a fillet.
- quaere — a query or question.
- quaker — a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quarry — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quarte — the fourth of eight defensive positions.
- quarto — a book size of about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), determined by folding printed sheets twice to form four leaves or eight pages. Symbol: 4to, 4°.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quartz — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- quasar — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- quater — (in prescriptions) four times.
- quatre — the four at cards, dice, or the like.
- quatro — a small guitar with four or five strings or pairs of strings, used in Latin American and Caribbean music.
- quaver — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- qumran — Khirbet Qumran.
- qur'an — Koran.
- rabaul — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
- radeau — an armed scow, variously rigged, used as a floating battery during the American Revolution.
- radium — Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- radius — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- radula — a chitinous band in the mouth of most mollusks, set with numerous, minute, horny teeth and drawn backward and forward over the floor of the mouth in the process of breaking up food.
- ragout — French Cookery. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.
- raguly — having tooth-like or stub-like projections
- ragusa — a province in SE Italy.
- raipur — a city in SE Madhya Pradesh, in E central India.
- rajput — a member of a Hindu people claiming descent from the ancient Kshatriya, or warrior caste, and noted for their military spirit.
- rameau — Jean Philippe [zhahn fee-leep] /ʒɑ̃ fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), 1683–1764, French composer and musical theorist.
- ramous — ramose.
- rampur — a city in Uttar Pradesh state in N India.
- ranula — a cystic tumor formed beneath the tongue, caused by obstruction of the sublingual or submaxillary gland or of a mucous gland.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- rasure — an erasure.
- raucid — raucous
- raucle — bold, rash
- raunch — smuttiness or vulgarity; crudeness; obscenity: porno magazines and other purveyors of raunch.
- reaum. — Réaumur (scale)
- regula — (in a Doric entablature) a fillet, continuing a triglyph beneath the taenia, from which guttae are suspended.
- rehaul — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.