5-letter words containing u, a, e
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- gauze — any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or leno weave.
- geaux — (jocular) informal form of go.
- guage — Misspelling of gauge.
- guare — John, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- gudea — flourished c2250 b.c, Sumerian ruler.
- hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- haque — (spelling, jargon) /hak/ (Usenet) A variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.
- haute — high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
- heiau — An ancient Hawaiian temple or sacred site.
- judea — the S region of ancient Palestine: existed under Persian, Greek, and Roman rule; divided between Israel and Jordan in 1948; since 1967 completely occupied by Israel.
- kafue — a river in S central Africa, flowing SE along the Zaire-Zambia border and then SW and E through Zambia to the Zambezi River above Kariba Lake. About 600 miles (965 km) long.
- kehua — a ghost or spirit
- laure — (language) A language for knowledge representation combining object-oriented features and logic programming. It has set operations, object-oriented exception handling and a polymorphic type system.
- leaue — Obsolete spelling of leave.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- lulea — a seaport in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- lutea — yellow
- manue — Manoah.
- maude — Matilda (def 1).
- mauve — a pale bluish purple.
- nugae — a number of unimportant matters or japes
- pareu — lavalava.
- pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pupae — an insect in the nonfeeding, usually immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the imago.
- quade — Alternative form of quede.
- quake — (of persons) to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger, or the like: He spoke boldly even though his legs were quaking.
- quale — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
- quame — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quare — remarkable or strange
- quate — (Scotland) quiet.
- quave — (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.
- quean — an overly forward, impudent woman; shrew; hussy.
- quena — a recorderlike bamboo flute having a notched mouthpiece, used in Andean music.
- rueda — a Cuban round dance
- rugae — Usually, rugae. Biology, Anatomy. a wrinkle, fold, or ridge.
- salue — a salute
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- saute — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- taegu — a city in SE South Korea: commercial center.
- taube — an early German monoplane
- taupe — a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
- tegua — an ankle-high moccasin worn in Mexico and parts of the US
- tubae — Music. a valved, brass wind instrument having a low range. an organ reed stop of large scale with tones of exceptional power. an ancient Roman trumpet.
- ukaea — United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- ulema — Muslim scholars or men of authority in religion and law
- ulnae — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
- urase — urease.