5-letter words containing e, u, s
- 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.
- fusee — a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
- fuses — Plural form of fuse.
- fuzes — Plural form of fuze.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- genus — Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- glues — Plural form of glue.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- gudes — God.
- guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- guest — Edgar A(lbert) 1881–1959, U.S. journalist and writer of verse, born in England.
- guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- gules — the tincture red.
- house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- hulse — Russell Alan, born 1950, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1993.
- ileus — intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- insue — Archaic form of ensue.
- issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- jebus — an ancient Canaanite city taken by David: it later became Jerusalem.
- jehus — a king of Israel noted for his furious chariot attacks. II Kings 9.
- jesus — Jesus.
- josue — Joshua (defs 1, 2).
- jubes — Plural form of jube.
- jukes — jukebox.
- jules — a male given name, French form of Julius.
- jupes — Plural form of jupe.
- jutes — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- lepus — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Orion and Columba
- lieus — place; stead.
- loues — Plural form of loue.
- louse — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- ludes — Quaalude.
- luges — Plural form of luge.
- lunes — a line for securing a hawk.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- menus — a list of the dishes served at a meal; bill of fare: Ask the waiter for a menu.
- meuse — Dutch Maas. a river in W Europe, flowing from NE France through E Belgium and S Netherlands into the North Sea. 575 miles (925 km) long.
- moues — Plural form of moue.
- mouse — A small rodent that typically has a pointed snout, relatively large ears and eyes, and a long tail.
- mules — a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- mulse — a drink containing honey mixed with wine or water
- mures — a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- mused — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muses — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.