5-letter words containing a, u, r
- ruana — a poncholike outer garment of heavy wool, worn especially in the mountains of Colombia.
- rubai — a verse form of Persian origin consisting of four-line stanzas
- rudas — a coarse, rude old woman
- rudra — father of the storm gods and controller of the powers of nature.
- rueda — a Cuban round dance
- rugae — Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- rugal — having ridges or folds
- rukwa — Lake, a shallow salt lake in SW Tanzania. About 1000 sq. mi. (2600 sq. km).
- rumal — a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- rumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rupia — a type of skin eruption
- rural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.
- rusma — a Turkish depilatory
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sarus — a large Indian crane, Grus antigone
- saury — a sharp-snouted fish, Scomberesox saurus, inhabiting temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- shuar — the name the Jivaro people of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon have for themselves
- shura — a consultative council or assembly
- sudra — Shudra.
- 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.
- 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.
- sutra — Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- tartu — a city in SE Estonia.
- tuart — a eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus gomphocephala, of Australia, yielding a very durable light-coloured timber
- turya — turiya.
- ulnar — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
- ultra — going beyond what is usual or ordinary; excessive; extreme.
- umbra — shade; shadow.
- umrah — the pilgrimage, consisting of rituals performed at various shrines, made by a Muslim upon entering Mecca: often part of the hajj.
- unarm — to deprive or relieve of arms; disarm.
- unary — pertaining to a function whose domain is a given set and whose range is contained in that set.
- unbar — to remove a bar or bars from; open; unlock; unbolt: to unbar a door.
- unrra — United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration: the first United Nations organization, formed in 1943 by Franklin Roosevelt and in existence until 1949, it provided rehabilitation relief to refugees after World War 2
- unrwa — United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- urali — a resinous poison derived from many tropical American plant species
- urals — a river in the Russian Federation, flowing S from the S Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. 1575 miles (2535 km) long.
- urase — urease.
- urate — a salt of uric acid.
- urawa — a city in E Honshu, in Japan.
- urban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- urbia — cities collectively
- ureal — Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- urena — any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
- uriah — Also, Douay Bible, Urias [yoo-rahy-uh s] /yʊˈraɪ əs/ (Show IPA). Also called Uriah the Hittite. the husband of Bathsheba, and an officer in David's army. II Sam. 11.