5-letter words containing s, u, r
- furls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furl.
- furst — Eye dialect of first.
- gaurs — Plural form of gaur.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- grush — healthy; thriving.
- gursh — qirsh.
- gurts — Plural form of gurt.
- gurus — Plural form of guru.
- gyrus — a convolution, especially of the brain.
- horus — a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- hours — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- hurls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurl.
- hurst — Fannie, 1889–1968, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hurts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hurt.
- irbus — IrDA Control
- iskur — a river in W Bulgaria, flowing N and NE to the Danube River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- knurs — Plural form of knur.
- kraus — Karl, 1874–1936, Austrian writer and editor.
- kurds — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
- kursk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe.
- kurus — a monetary unit of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira; piaster.
- lours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lour.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurks — to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- masur — Kurt, born 1927, German orchestral conductor.
- mures — a river in SE central Europe, flowing W from the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania to the Tisza River in S Hungary. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- murks — darkness; gloom: the murk of a foggy night.
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- murus — (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.
- musar — rabbinic literature concerned with ethics, right conduct, etc
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- nurbs — Non-Uniform Rational B Spline
- nurds — Plural form of nurd.
- nurls — to make knurls or ridges on.
- nurse — a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.
- orcus — the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.
- prius — (in prescriptions) before; former.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- pursy — vain about one's wealth; purse-proud.
- purus — a river in NW central South America, flowing NE from E Peru through W Brazil to the Amazon. 2000 miles (3200 km) long.
- qursh — qirsh.
- rakus — a thick-walled, rough, dark lead-glazed Japanese earthenware used in the tea ceremony.
- ramus — a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- rebus — a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables: Two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- reuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- robus — Hugo, 1885–1963, U.S. sculptor.