5-letter words containing r, u
- burra — Edward (John). 1905–76, British painter, noted esp for his depiction of squalid and grotesque subjects
- burro — a donkey, esp one used as a pack animal
- burry — full of or covered in burs
- bursa — a small fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between movable parts of the body, esp at joints
- burse — a flat case used at Mass as a container for the corporal
- burst — If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
- busra — Basra.
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- carus — (medicine) coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
- cauri — a monetary unit of Guinea, the 100th part of a syli.
- chiru — a Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsoni, having a dense woolly pinkish-brown fleece prized as the source of shahtoosh wool: now close to extinction due to illegal slaughter for its fleece
- churl — a surly ill-bred person
- churn — A churn is a container which is used for making butter.
- churr — a low, trilled or whirring sound made by some birds or insects
- clour — a bump on the head
- coeur — Jacques. ?1395–1456, French merchant; councillor and court banker to Charles VII of France
- corfu — an island in the Ionian Sea, in the Ionian Islands: forms, with neighbouring islands, a department of Greece. Pop: 107 879 (2001). Area: 641 sq km (247 sq miles)
- cornu — a part or structure resembling a horn or having a hornlike pattern, such as a cross section of the grey matter of the spinal cord
- courb — curved or rounded
- cours — (obsolete) course.
- court — A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate.
- couru — done or executed with a running step.
- crius — a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaea.
- croud — Obsolete form of crowd.
- croup — Croup is a disease which children sometimes suffer from that makes it difficult for them to breathe and causes them to cough a lot.
- crout — (archaic) sauerkraut.
- cruck — one of a pair of curved wooden timbers supporting the end of the roof in certain types of building
- crude — A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.
- cruds — Plural form of crud.
- crudy — (in the works of Shakespeare) crude or raw
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- cruet — A cruet is a small container, or set of containers, for salt, pepper, or mustard which is used at meals.
- cruft — Charles. 1852–1938, British dog breeder, who organized the first (1886) of the annual dog shows known as Cruft's
- crull — (obsolete) curly; curled.
- crumb — Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
- crump — to thud or explode with a loud dull sound
- crunk — a form of hip-hop music originating in the southern states of the US
- cruor — a blood clot
- crura — the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- cruse — a small earthenware container used, esp formerly, for liquids
- crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- crust — The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
- cruth — Alternative form of crwth.
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cukor — George, 1899–1983, U.S. film director.
- cul8r — see you later
- cupr- — copper
- cupro — Rayon made by the cuproammonium process.
- curbs — Plural form of curb.
- curch — a woman's plain cap or kerchief