6-letter words containing s, e, r, u
- sulker — to remain silent or hold oneself aloof in a sullen, ill-humored, or offended mood: Promise me that you won't sulk if I want to leave the party early.
- summer — a principal beam or girder, as one running between girts to support joists.
- sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- sumter — a city in central South Carolina.
- sunder — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- super- — Super- is used to form adjectives which indicate that something is at a higher level than something else.
- superb — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- superl — superlative
- supper — the evening meal, often the principal meal of the day.
- surbed — to lay (a stone) on edge, esp with reference to grain
- surely — firmly; unerringly; without missing, slipping, etc.
- surest — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- surete — la [lah] /lɑ/ (Show IPA) the criminal investigation department of the French government.
- surety — security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
- surfer — the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.
- surfie — a young person whose main interest is in surfing, esp when considered as a cult figure
- surged — a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
- surrey — a light, four-wheeled, two-seated carriage, with or without a top, for four persons.
- survey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- sutler — (formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- suture — Surgery. a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process. a particular method of doing this. one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
- tereus — a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- touser — someone who touses
- trouse — close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland
- truest — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- turves — plural of turf.
- tusker — an animal with tusks, as an elephant or a wild boar.
- tuyers — an opening through which the blast of air enters a blast furnace, cupola, forge, or the like, to facilitate combustion.
- uckers — a board game similar to ludo, played by people in the navy
- ulster — a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- unrest — lack of rest; a restless, troubled, or uneasy state; disquiet: the unrest within himself.
- unsure — not certain or confident: He arrived at the party unsure of his welcome.
- uprest — an uprising
- uprise — to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
- uprose — simple past tense of uprise.
- uraeus — the sacred asp as represented upon the headdress of divinities and royal personages of ancient Egypt, usually directly over the forehead, as an emblem of supreme power.
- urease — an enzyme that changes urea into ammonium carbonate, occurring in bacteria, fungi, etc.
- uresis — the passing of urine; urination
- ursine — of or relating to a bear or bears.
- usager — a person who has the use of something in trust for someone else
- ushers — a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
- ussher — James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
- usurer — a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
- uterus — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
- versus — against (used especially to indicate an action brought by one party against another in a court of law, or to denote competing teams or players in a sports contest): Smith versus Jones; Army versus Navy.
- vertus — excellence or merit in objects of art, curios, and the like.