6-letter words containing s, a, u, r
- gradus — a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
- guards — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guslar — a person who plays the gusla
- hussar — (originally) one of a body of Hungarian light cavalry formed during the 15th century.
- icarus — Also, Ikaros. Classical Mythology. a youth who attempted to escape from Crete with wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings melted from the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.
- jaures — Jean Léon [zhahn ley-awn] /ʒɑ̃ leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1859–1914, French socialist and writer.
- jumars — Plural form of jumar.
- kauris — Plural form of kauri.
- krauss — Clemens [kley-mens] /ˈkleɪ mɛns/ (Show IPA), 1893–1954, Austrian conductor and pianist.
- kurtas — Plural form of kurta.
- lubras — Plural form of lubra.
- lustra — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
- mansur — (ʿAbdullāh al-Mansūr) a.d. 712?–775, Arab caliph 754–775: founder of Baghdad 764.
- marcus — Saint. Also, Mark. died a.d. 336, pope 336.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- maseru — a monarchy in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 11,716 sq. mi. (30,344 sq. km). Capital: Maseru.
- mauser — Peter Paul, 1838–1914, and his brother, Wilhelm, 1834–82, German inventors of firearms.
- mudras — Plural form of mudra.
- murals — Plural form of mural.
- pulsar — Astronomy. one of several hundred known celestial objects, generally believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars, that emit pulses of radiation, especially radio waves, with a high degree of regularity.
- quarks — Physics. any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare color (def 18), flavor (def 5), quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
- quarts — Plural form of quart.
- quasar — one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
- radius — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- ragusa — a province in SE Italy.
- ramous — ramose.
- raptus — a state of intense or overwhelming excitement; rapture; ecstasy.
- rasure — an erasure.
- reseau — a network.
- roseau — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- rosula — a rosette
- rugosa — any of various shrubs descended from a particular wild rose, Rosa rugosa
- russia — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
- sacrum — a bone resulting from the fusion of two or more vertebrae between the lumbar and the coccygeal regions, in humans being composed usually of five fused vertebrae and forming the posterior wall of the pelvis.
- santur — a Persian or Arabian dulcimer
- sapour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sardou — Victorien [veek-taw-ryen] /vik tɔˈryɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1831–1908, French dramatist.
- sargus — a sea fish from the family Sparidae, more commonly known as the white seabream
- sarouk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- saucer — a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
- sauger — a freshwater, North American pikeperch, Stizostedion canadense.
- saurel — any of several elongated marine fishes of the genus Trachurus, having bony plates along each side.
- sauro- — lizard
- savour — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- scaury — (on Orkney and Shetland) a young seagull
- segura — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Pancho Segura"Segoo") born 1921, Ecuadorian tennis player.
- seurat — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1859–91, French (pointillist) painter.
- shudra — a Hindu of the lowest caste, that of the workers.
- souari — a S American tree of the genus Caryocar