4-letter words containing r, u
- knur — a knotty or hard protuberance or growth, as on a tree.
- koru — a stylized curved pattern used esp in carving
- kura — a river flowing from NE Turkey, through the Georgian Republic and Azerbaijan SE to the Caspian Sea. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
- kurd — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
- kure — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan.
- kuri — a mongrel dog
- kurn — kirn2 .
- kurt — a male given name.
- kuru — a fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive lack of coordination and dementia, known only among certain Melanesian peoples, especially the Fore of New Guinea, and caused by a slow virus: now virtually extinct.
- lour — lower2 .
- lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurk — lurking
- lurt — (UK dialectal, Scotland) A lump of dirt or excrement; a turd.
- lurv — (informal) Alternative form of lurve.
- maru — A suffix of Japanese ship names.
- muir — Edwin, 1887–1959, English poet.
- mura — a river in S central Austria, NE Slovenia, and N Croatia, flowing NE and SE to the Drava River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- mure — Obsolete. a wall.
- muri — Plural form of murus.
- murk — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murl — to crumble or fragment
- murr — (obsolete) A catarrh.
- nuer — a member of a tribal people who live along the Nile in southern Sudan and subsist chiefly by raising cattle.
- nurd — a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
- nuri — a member of an Indo-European people of Nuristan and neighbouring parts of Pakistan
- nurl — to make knurls or ridges on.
- nurr — a ball that is made of wood and used in some games
- ourn — (obsolete, outside, British, and, American dialects, especially, Appalachian) Ours.
- ours — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- paur — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, Austrian violinist and conductor.
- peru — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- pour — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- prau — proa.
- prus — Prussia
- prut — a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- puer — an alkaline substance derived from the dung of dogs, formerly used to steep hides
- puir — poor.
- pure — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- puri — poori.
- purl — the action or sound of purling.
- purr — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- purs — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- quar — (obsolete) A quarry.
- ragu — a rich, slow-cooked sauce for pasta consisting primarily of meat: a sausage and tomato ragù.
- raku — a thick-walled, rough, dark lead-glazed Japanese earthenware used in the tea ceremony.
- ratu — a Fijian chief or noble
- raun — fish roe or spawn
- rdtu — Romanian Democratic Turkish Union
- reus — a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- rhus — any shrub or small tree of the anacardiaceous genus Rhus, several species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their foliage, which assumes brilliant colours in autumn