7-letter words containing r, e, s, u
- scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- scourie — a young seagull
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- screwup — a mistake or blunder: The package was delayed through an addressing screwup.
- scrouge — to crowd or press
- scruple — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- scudder — a fast runner
- scudery — Magdeleine de [mag-duh-len duh] /mag dəˈlɛn də/ (Show IPA), 1607–1701, French novelist.
- scuffer — a type of lightweight sandal
- sculker — one who skulks
- scumber — to defecate
- scunner — an irrational dislike; loathing: She took a scunner to him.
- scupper — Nautical. a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges. Compare freeing port.
- scutter — scurry.
- seabury — Samuel, 1729–96, American clergyman: first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- seasure — a seizure
- secular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securer — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- seducer — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
- seisure — an act of seisin
- seizure — the act or an instance of seizing.
- sergius — died 1012, pope 1009–12.
- serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- seropus — a liquid consisting of mingled serum and pus
- serpula — a member of a genus of marine annelid or tubeworm belonging to the Serpulid family, characterized by the serpentine calcareous tube it produces and inhabits
- serumal — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- severus — Lucius Septimius [sep-tim-ee-uh s] /sɛpˈtɪm i əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 146–211, Roman emperor 193–211.
- sevruga — a species of sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus, of the Caspian and Black seas.
- seymour — Jane, c1510–37, third wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Edward VI.
- shubert — Lee (Levi Shubert) 1875–1953, and his brothers Sam S. 1876–1905, and Jacob J. 1880–1963, U.S. theatrical managers.
- shucker — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- shudder — to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or cold.
- shunner — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- shunter — to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
- shusher — a person who tends to quieten others
- shutter — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- silures — a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, living chiefly in SE Wales, who fiercely resisted Roman invaders in the 1st century ad.
- sirenum — Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- skudler — a leader of a festive procession
- skulker — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- skummer — a sieve for collecting floating matter from a liquid
- slubber — to perform hastily or carelessly.
- slugger — a person who strikes hard, especially a boxer noted for the ability to deliver hard punches.
- slumber — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slummer — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slurper — a person who slurps his or her food or drink
- slurred — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- smudger — a person or thing that smudges
- smugger — contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.