7-letter words containing r, u, s, m
- romanus — died a.d. 897, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 897.
- romulus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rostrum — any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- rummish — rather strange, peculiar or odd
- sambhur — a deer, Cervus unicolor, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, the East Indies, and the Philippines, having three-pointed antlers.
- samurai — a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scrummy — scrumptious.
- scrumpy — strong English cider
- scumber — to defecate
- serumal — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- seymour — Jane, c1510–37, third wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Edward VI.
- simular — a person or thing that simulates; pretender.
- sirenum — Mare, Mare Sirenum.
- sistrum — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
- skummer — a sieve for collecting floating matter from a liquid
- slumber — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slummer — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- smudger — a person or thing that smudges
- smugger — contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
- sorghum — a cereal grass, Sorghum bicolor (or S. vulgare), having broad, cornlike leaves and a tall, pithy stem bearing the grain in a dense terminal cluster.
- squirmy — characterized by squirming.
- sternum — Anatomy, Zoology. a bone or series of bones extending along the middle line of the ventral portion of the body of most vertebrates, consisting in humans of a flat, narrow bone connected with the clavicles and the true ribs; breastbone.
- stratum — a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another: a stratum of ancient foundations.
- stumper — a person or thing that stumps.
- sturmer — a variety of eating apple having a pale green skin and crisp tart flesh
- sumatra — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
- summery — of, like, or appropriate for summer: summery weather; a summery dress.
- sumpter — a packhorse or mule.
- sunroom — a room designed to admit a large amount of sunlight; sun parlor or sun porch.
- supreme — Also called sauce suprême. a velouté made with a rich chicken stock.
- supremo — the person in charge; chief.
- suramin — a drug used to treat trypanosomiasis
- surfman — a member of a surf-boat crew
- surinam — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
- surname — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- tourism — the activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure.
- trismus — a spasm of the jaw muscles that makes it difficult to open the mouth.
- turkism — the culture, beliefs, principles, practices, etc., of the Turks.
- umbrous — shady or shadowed
- unsmart — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- upswarm — to rise or send upwards in a swarm
- urmston — a town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 40 964 (2001)
- urosome — the abdomen of arthropods