5-letter words containing r, u
- azure — Azure is used to describe things that are bright blue.
- azury — a bluish colour
- babur — (born Zahir ud-Din Mohammed) 1483-1530; founder & 1st emperor (1526-30) of the Mogul dynasty of India
- barbu — a threadfin, Polydactylus virginicus, inhabiting western Atlantic coastal waters.
- bauer — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), Agricola, Georgius.
- bauru — a city in E Brazil.
- bluer — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- blurb — The blurb about a new book, film, or exhibition is information about it that is written in order to attract people's interest.
- blurt — If someone blurts something, they say it suddenly, after trying hard to keep quiet or to keep it secret.
- bornu — a former sultanate in Africa, SW of Lake Chad: now largely a province in Nigeria.
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- bourd — a jest or joke
- bourg — a French market town, esp one beside a castle
- bourn — a destination; goal
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945
- broun — (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) 1888–1939, U.S. journalist, essayist, and novelist.
- bruce — James. 1730–94, British explorer, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (1770)
- bruch — Max (maks). 1838–1920, German composer, noted chiefly for his three violin concertos
- brugh — a mansion or large house
- bruhn — Erik (Belton Evers) 1928–86, Danish ballet dancer.
- bruin — a name for a bear, used in children's tales, fables, etc
- bruit — to report; rumour
- brule — (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.
- brume — heavy mist or fog
- brung — a past participle and simple past tense of bring.
- brunn — German name of Brno.
- bruno — Franklin Roy, known as Frank. born 1961, British heavyweight boxer
- brunt — the main force or shock of a blow, attack, etc (esp in the phrase bear the brunt of)
- brusa — Bursa.
- brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
- brusk — abrupt in manner; blunt; rough: A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.
- brute — If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
- buber — Martin. 1878–1965, Jewish theologian, existentialist philosopher, and scholar of Hasidism, born in Austria, whose works include I and Thou (1923), Between Man and Man (1946), and Eclipse of God (1952)
- buran — a blizzard, with the wind blowing from the north and reaching gale force
- buraq — the legendary beast, a winged horse with the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock, on which Muhammad ascended to heaven.
- burbs — suburb.
- buret — a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.
- burga — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- burgh — (in Scotland) a town, esp one incorporated by charter, that enjoyed a degree of self-government until the local-government reorganization of 1975
- burin — a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp lozenge-shaped point, used for engraving furrows in metal, wood, or marble
- burka — burqa
- burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
- burly — A burly man has a broad body and strong muscles.
- burma — Myanmar: name still in popular use
- burns — Robert. 1759–96, Scottish lyric poet. His verse, written mostly in dialect, includes love songs, nature poetry, and satires. Auld Lang Syne and Tam o' Shanter are among his best known poems
- burnt — Burnt is a past tense and past participle of burn.
- buron — a public official perceived to be a hindrance to enterprise
- buroo — the government office from which unemployment benefit is distributed
- burpy — belching, tending to belch, or feeling like belching: Carbonated beverages make me burpy.
- burqa — A burqa is a long garment that covers the head and body and is traditionally worn by women in Islamic countries.