4-letter words containing r, u
- thru — dates: up to, including
- thur — Thursday
- tour — Georges de [zhawrzh duh] /ʒɔrʒ də/ (Show IPA), 1593–1652, French painter.
- trlu — Taiwan Railway Labor Union
- true — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trug — a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
- tura — Cosimo [kaw-zee-maw] /ˈkɔ zi mɔ/ (Show IPA), c1430–98? Italian painter.
- turd — a piece of excrement.
- turf — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
- turk — a native or inhabitant of Turkey.
- turm — a troop of horsemen
- turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turp — transurethral resection of the prostate: a surgical procedure in which an electronic cutting implement is fed through the urethra to remove part of an enlarged prostate
- uart — Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
- uber — having the specified property to an extreme or excessive degree; very: an uber fancy restaurant.
- uhry — Alfred, born 1936, U.S. playwright.
- ukr. — Ukraine
- umra — a pilgrimage to Mecca that can be made at any time of the year
- ural — a river in the Russian Federation, flowing S from the S Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. 1575 miles (2535 km) long.
- uran — monitor (def 13).
- urao — a type of mineral with the formula Na2CO3·NaHCO3·2H2O
- urdé — (in heraldry) having points
- urdu — one of the official languages of Pakistan, a language derived from Hindustani, used by Muslims, and written with Persian-Arabic letters.
- urdy — a heraldic line pattern
- urea — Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- urey — Harold Clayton [kleyt-n] /ˈkleɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1893–1981, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1934.
- urfa — a city in SE Turkey, E of the Euphrates River: on the site of ancient Edessa.
- urfé — Honoré d' (ɔnɔre d). 1568–1625, French writer, whose pastoral L'Astrée (1607–27) is considered the first French novel
- urga — former name of Ulan Bator.
- urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- uric — of, pertaining to, contained in, or derived from urine.
- uro- — indicating urine or the urinary tract
- uru. — Uruguay
- uruk — an ancient Sumerian city in S Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c.: exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script.
- urus — the aurochs.
- urva — a crab-eating mongoose, Herpestes urva, which has black fur with a white streak from the mouth to the shoulder
- user — the exercise of a right to the enjoyment of property.
- ussr — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow. Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- utrc — United Technologies Research Cente
- uxor — wife (used chiefly in the legal phrase et uxor).
- vrou — a woman or wife
- wcru — Waukesha County Referee Unit
- wdru — Wales Deaf Rugby Union
- wfru — World Fantasy Rugby Union
- wrau — White Rats Actors Union
- wreu — Western Railway Employees Union
- wurm — the fourth stage of the glaciation of Eurasia during the Pleistocene. Compare Wisconsin (def 3).
- wwru — Welsh Womens Rugby Union
- your — to address as “thou.”.
- yuri — (slang, pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more females in a homosexual relationship.