5-letter words containing d, s, u
- dusky — somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy.
- dusts — Plural form of dust.
- dusty — filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust.
- duxes — Plural form of dux.
- dyaus — the Vedic god of the sky.
- feuds — Plural form of feud.
- funds — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- fused — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- gauds — Plural form of gaud.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- gudes — God.
- indus — a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1900 miles (3060 km) long.
- judas — the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:35.
- kudos — plural of kudo.
- kudus — Plural form of kudu.
- kurds — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
- lauds — to praise; extol.
- ludes — Quaalude.
- modus — (legal, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
- munds — Plural form of mund.
- mused — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- nidus — a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- nodus — a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
- nudes — Plural form of nude.
- nurds — Plural form of nurd.
- oused — Simple past tense and past participle of ouse.
- padus — ancient name of Po.
- pseud — a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
- pudsy — a plump person
- quads — quadriplegic: a special ward for quads.
- quids — Plural form of quid.
- quods — jail.
- rudas — a coarse, rude old woman
- sadhu — an ascetic holy man, especially a monk.
- sadtu — South African Democratic Teachers Union
- salud — to your health: used as a toast
- saudi — a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia.
- scudo — any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- skuld — any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd) the goddess of the present (Verdandi) and the goddess of the future (Skuld)
- slued — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- sound — The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
- squad — a small number of soldiers, commonly 10 privates, a staff sergeant, and a corporal; the smallest military unit.
- squid — any of several ten-armed cephalopods, as of the genera Loligo and Ommastrephes, having a slender body and a pair of rounded or triangular caudal fins and varying in length from 4–6 inches (10–15 cm) to 60–80 feet (18–24 meters).
- study — a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.
- sudan — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- sudra — Shudra.
- sudsy — consisting of, containing, or producing foamy lather.
- suede — kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- ursid — any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.