5-letter words containing r, u, n
- nehru — Jawaharlal [juh-wah-her-lahl] /dʒəˈwɑ hər lɑl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).
- neur- — neuro-
- neuro — (informal) Neurologist.
- nuder — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- nuker — One who nukes.
- nuprl — /nyu p*rl/ Nearly Ultimate PRL. A system for interactive creation of formal mathematics, including definitions and proofs. It has an extremely rich type system, including dependent functions, products, sets, quotients and universes. Types are first-class citizens. It is built on Franz Lisp and Edinburgh ML.
- nurbs — Non-Uniform Rational B Spline
- nurds — Plural form of nurd.
- nurls — to make knurls or ridges on.
- nurmi — Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- nzrfu — New Zealand Rugby Football Union
- prune — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- prunt — a small mass of glass fused to the body of a glass piece.
- quern — a primitive, hand-operated mill for grinding grain.
- quirn — A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which is turned by hand.
- quorn — a vegetable protein developed from a type of fungus and used in cooking as a meat substitute
- quran — Koran.
- rerun — to run again.
- rouen — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
- round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- rouyn — a city in SW Quebec, in E Canada: gold and copper mining.
- ruana — a poncholike outer garment of heavy wool, worn especially in the mountains of Colombia.
- ruben — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- rudny — a city in N central Kazakhstan, SW of Kustanai.
- rugen — an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).
- ruing — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- ruins — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rumen — the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- runch — the white charlock
- rundi — a member of a people constituting virtually the entire population of Burundi.
- runed — having runes inscribed: a runed ornament.
- runes — 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close. Compare casting the runes, Great Runes. 2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).
- runic — consisting of or set down in runes: runic inscriptions.
- runny — tending to run or drip: a runny paste.
- runty — stunted; dwarfish: The runty puppy seems the most playful of the litter.
- runup — the testing of an airplane engine by accelerating the motor.
- rutin — a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 2 7 H 3 0 O 1 6 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- torun — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- trunk — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- tuner — a person or thing that tunes.
- turin — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- ulnar — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
- 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.
- under — beneath and covered by: under a table; under a tree.
- undro — United Nations Disaster Relief Organization
- undry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.