5-letter words containing c, o, u
- docus — Display Oriented Computer Usage System. Interactive system using push buttons. Sammet 1969, p.678
- douce — sedate; modest; quiet.
- doucs — Plural form of douc.
- duroc — one of an American breed of hardy red hogs having drooping ears.
- focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- guaco — a climbing composite plant, Mikania guaco, of tropical America.
- hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
- junco — any of several small North American finches of the genus Junco.
- locum — locum tenens.
- locus — a place; locality.
- mouch — to borrow (a small item or amount) without intending to return or repay it.
- mucho — much or many: They're under mucho stress.
- muco- — mucus or mucous
- mucor — any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.
- mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
- nouch — (obsolete) An ouch; a jewel.
- occur — to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- oculi — an eye.
- oecus — (in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- orcus — the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- ouche — (poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
- ounce — snow leopard.
- pouch — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- pubco — a company operating a chain of pubic houses
- quaco — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- scoup — to jump or scamper
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scudo — any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
- touch — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- turco — (formerly) an Algerian serving in the light infantry of the French army
- uncol — UNiversal Computer Oriented Language. A universal intermediate language, discussed but never implemented.
- uncos — news
- uncoy — artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
- vouch — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
- yauco — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- yucko — disgusting; unpleasant