6-letter words containing a, s, u
- gaults — Plural form of gault.
- gauzes — Plural form of gauze.
- gawpus — a clumsy or silly person
- ghauts — Plural form of ghaut.
- glarus — a canton in E central Switzerland. 264 sq. mi. (684 sq. km).
- gradus — a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- guards — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guavas — Plural form of guava.
- gulags — Plural form of gulag.
- guslar — a person who plays the gusla
- gustaf — Gustaf V1858-1950; king of Sweden (1907-50)
- gustav — (Gustaf Adolf) 1882–1973, king of Sweden 1950–73 (son of Gustavus V).
- haikus — Plural form of haiku.
- hamous — Alternative form of hamose.
- hamsun — Knut [knoot] /knut/ (Show IPA), 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist: Nobel Prize 1920.
- hatasu — Hatshepsut.
- haunts — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- hausen — beluga (def 1).
- hausse — (military, historical) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.
- hiatus — a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- huesca — a city in NE Spain: Roman town, site of Quintus Sertorius' school (76 bc); 15th-century cathedral and ancient palace of Aragonese kings. Pop: 47 609 (2003 est)
- humans — Plural form of human.
- humash — the Pentateuch.
- husain — Hussein (def 1).
- hussar — (originally) one of a body of Hungarian light cavalry formed during the 15th century.
- iambus — iamb.
- icarus — Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- ieyasu — Tokugawa [taw-koo-gah-wah] /ˈtɔ kuˈgɑ wɑ/ (Show IPA), 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.
- insula — a group of convolutions situated at the base of the lateral fissure of the brain.
- jaques — a disillusioned and satirical observer of life, in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
- jaunts — Plural form of jaunt.
- jaures — Jean Léon [zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.
- joshua — the successor of Moses as leader of the Israelites. Deut. 31:14, 23; 34:9.
- jumars — Plural form of jumar.
- juntas — Plural form of junta.
- kaishu — a variety of Chinese script developed in the 4th century a.d. and considered standard since that time.
- kapuas — a river in W Kalimantan, in central Borneo, flowing SW to the South China Sea. 710 miles (1142 km) long.
- kaunas — a city in S central Lithuania.
- kauris — Plural form of kauri.
- krauss — Clemens [kley-mens] /ˈkleɪ mɛns/ (Show IPA), 1893–1954, Austrian conductor and pianist.
- kulaks — a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
- kumasi — a city in and the capital of Ashanti district, in S Ghana.
- kunsan — a seaport in W South Korea.
- kurtas — Plural form of kurta.
- kusaie — Kosrae.
- kuvasz — one of a Hungarian breed of large dogs having a short, slightly wavy, white coat, used for herding sheep and as watchdogs.
- lacmus — (archaic) Litmus.
- laddus — Plural form of laddu.
- landus — Lando.
- lapsus — a slip of the tongue.