5-letter words containing s, c, u
- cusec — a unit of flow equal to 1 cubic foot per second. 1 cusec is equivalent to 0.028 317 cubic metre per second
- cushy — A cushy job or situation is pleasant because it does not involve much work or effort.
- cusks — Plural form of cusk.
- cusps — a point or pointed end.
- cuspy — (of a computer program) well-designed and user-friendly
- cusso — a tree of the rose family native to the mountains of central and eastern Africa
- cusum — a statistical technique used to analyse an individual's use of language
- cutes — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cutis — the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- cyrus — known as Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder. died ?529 bc, king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire
- decus — Digital Equipment Computer Users Society
- docus — Display Oriented Computer Usage System. Interactive system using push buttons. Sammet 1969, p.678
- doucs — Plural form of douc.
- duces — a leader or dictator.
- ducks — any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- ducts — Plural form of duct.
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- ficus — any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.
- focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fuchs — Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- fucus — any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
- hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
- hucks — Plural form of huck.
- ictus — Prosody. rhythmical or metrical stress.
- incus — Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals. Compare malleus, stapes.
- kusch — Polykarp [pol-i-kahrp;; German poh-ly-kahrp] /ˈpɒl ɪˌkɑrp;; German ˌpoʊ lüˈkɑrp/ (Show IPA), 1911–1993, U.S. physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize 1955.
- locus — a place; locality.
- lucas — George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- lucks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luck.
- mucks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muck.
- mucus — a viscous, slimy mixture of mucins, water, electrolytes, epithelial cells, and leukocytes that is secreted by glands lining the nasal, esophageal, and other body cavities and serves primarily to protect and lubricate surfaces.
- musca — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between the Southern Cross and Chamaeleon
- music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- nucps — National Union of Civil and Public Servants: a UK trade union representing workers in civil and public service
- oecus — (in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- orcus — the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- picus — an ancient Italian god of agriculture.
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- sauch — sallow2 .
- saucy — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- schul — shul.
- scoup — to jump or scamper
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- scuba — a portable breathing device for free-swimming divers, consisting of a mouthpiece joined by hoses to one or two tanks of compressed air that are strapped on the back.
- scudo — any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.