5-letter words containing s, u, r
- romus — a son of either Aeneas or Ascanius: sometimes believed to be the founder of Rome.
- roues — a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
- roust — to rout, as from a place: to roust someone out of bed.
- routs — a bellow.
- rubus — a fruit-bearing genus of shrubs including raspberries and blackberries
- rudas — a coarse, rude old woman
- rufus — a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “red-headed.”.
- ruins — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rules — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- runes — 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close. Compare casting the runes, Great Runes. 2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).
- rushy — abounding with rushes or their stems.
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.
- rusma — a Turkish depilatory
- rusty — restive; stubborn: a rusty horse.
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sarus — a large Indian crane, Grus antigone
- saury — a sharp-snouted fish, Scomberesox saurus, inhabiting temperate regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- 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.
- scurf — the scales or small shreds of epidermis that are continually exfoliated from the skin.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- shiur — a lesson, esp one in which a passage of the Talmud is studied together by a group of people
- shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
- shrug — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shuar — the name the Jivaro people of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon have for themselves
- shura — a consultative council or assembly
- sieur — sir
- sirup — to bring to the form or consistency of syrup.
- slurb — a shabby, ill-planned suburban area.
- slurp — to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee.
- sorus — Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- sprue — a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.
- sprug — a house sparrow
- spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- spurs — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
- spurt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sruti — the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- sturt — violent quarreling.
- suber — cork (def 6).
- sucre — Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- sudra — Shudra.
- sugar — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- suger — 1081–1151, French ecclesiastic and statesman, who acted as adviser to Louis VI and regent (1147–49) to Louis VII. As abbot of Saint-Denis (1122–51) he influenced the development of Gothic architecture
- sumer — an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.