6-letter words containing s, a, u
- omasum — the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum; the manyplies.
- opacus — (of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- oscula — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
- oubaas — a person who is senior in years or rank
- outask — (transitive) To ask or proclaim for the last time.
- outgas — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outsat — simple past tense and past participle of outsit.
- outsay — to say (something) out loud
- palpus — an appendage attached to an oral part and serving as an organ of sense in insects, crustaceans, etc.
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- pappus — a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle.
- pascua — ˈIsla de (ˈislɑðɛ ) ; ēsˈläthe) Easter Island
- passus — a section or division of a story, poem, etc.; canto.
- paused — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- 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.
- puskas — Ferenc (ˈfɛrɛnk). 1927–2006, Hungarian footballer; played for Hungary (1945–56) and Real Madrid (1958–66)
- quacks — Plural form of quack.
- quaffs — Plural form of quaff.
- quails — Plural form of quail.
- quakes — Plural form of quake.
- qualms — an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- 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.
- quashi — an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant
- quasi- — Quasi- is used to form adjectives and nouns that describe something as being in many ways like something else, without actually being that thing.
- queans — Plural form of quean.
- queasy — inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person, etc.; nauseous; nauseated.
- quotas — Plural form of quota.
- 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.
- sacbut — a person who plays a sacbut
- sacque — sack1 (def 6).
- 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.
- saltus — oscillation (def 5b).
- salugi — a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth.
- saluki — (sometimes lowercase) one of a breed of black and tan, white, gold, or tricolor dogs resembling the greyhound and having fringes of long hair on the ears, legs, and thighs, raised originally in Egypt and southwestern Asia.
- salute — Military. to pay respect to or honor by some formal act, as by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.
- salyut — one of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting space stations, first launched in 1971.
- samshu — a Chinese liqueur distilled from millet or rice.
- samsun — a city in N Turkey, in Asia.