5-letter words containing a, s, u
- saucy — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- saudi — a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia.
- saugh — sallow2 .
- sault — a waterfall or rapid.
- sauna — a bath that uses dry heat to induce perspiration, and in which steam is produced by pouring water on heated stones.
- saury — a sharp-snouted fish, Scomberesox saurus, inhabiting temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- saute — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- scuba — a portable breathing device for free-swimming divers, consisting of a mouthpiece joined by hoses to one or two tanks of compressed air that are strapped on the back.
- scuta — plural of scutum.
- shaul — a wooden scoop made for winnowing corn
- shaun — a male given name, form of John.
- shuar — the name the Jivaro people of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon have for themselves
- shuha — of or relating to any Shinto sect other than the Kokka.
- shula — Donald Francis ("Don") born 1930, U.S. football coach.
- shura — a consultative council or assembly
- snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
- sousa — John Philip, 1854–1932, U.S. band conductor and composer.
- squab — a nestling pigeon, marketed when fully grown but still unfledged.
- squad — a small number of soldiers, commonly 10 privates, a staff sergeant, and a corporal; the smallest military unit.
- squat — to sit in a low or crouching position with the legs drawn up closely beneath or in front of the body; sit on one's haunches or heels.
- squaw — Older Use: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian woman, especially a wife.
- stuka — a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.
- stupa — a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- subah — a province in the Mogul empire
- subha — a string of beads used in praying and meditating
- sudan — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- sudra — Shudra.
- súgán — straw rope
- sugar — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- suita — a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.
- sulfa — related chemically to sulfanilamide.
- sulla — (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix) 138–78 b.c, Roman general and statesman: dictator 82–79.
- sumac — any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- sumba — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia, S of Flores. 4306 sq. mi. (11,153 sq. km).
- summa — a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.
- sunna — the traditional portion of Muslim law, based on the words and acts of Muhammad, and preserved in the traditional literature.
- sunya — that which exists absolutely and without predication.
- supac — Student Union Project Advisory Committee
- supra — l.s.c.
- surah — any of the 114 chapters of the Koran.
- sural — of or relating to the calf of the leg.
- surat — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- surra — an often fatal infectious disease of horses, camels, elephants, and dogs caused by a blood-infecting protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma evansi, transmitted by the bite of horseflies, characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
- susan — a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- sutra — Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- sutta — Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- tagus — a river in SW Europe, flowing W through central Spain and Portugal to the Atlantic at Lisbon. 566 miles (910 km) long.
- talus — the uppermost bone of the proximal row of bones of the tarsus; anklebone.