5-letter words containing u, a
- gaudy — brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- gauge — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gault — A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
- gaumy — sticky; smeared
- gaunt — extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.
- gaurs — Plural form of gaur.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- gauss — Karl Friedrich [kahrl free-drikh] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1777–1855, German mathematician and astronomer.
- gauze — any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or leno weave.
- gauzy — like gauze; transparently thin and light.
- geaux — (jocular) informal form of go.
- ghaut — a wide set of steps descending to a river, especially a river used for bathing.
- glaum — to snatch at something
- glaur — mud or mire
- gouda — a city in the W Netherlands, NE of Rotterdam.
- goura — any of several species of large, crested ground pigeons found in New Guinea
- gsusa — Girl Scouts of the United States of America
- guaco — a climbing composite plant, Mikania guaco, of tropical America.
- guage — Misspelling of gauge.
- guana — (US) A contraction of iguana (the lizard) made in British colonial America.
- guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.
- guans — Plural form of guan.
- guara — A bird, the scarlet ibis.
- guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guare — John, born 1938, U.S. playwright.
- guasa — The jewfish.
- guat. — Guatemala
- guava — any of numerous tropical and subtropical American trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Psidium, of the myrtle family, especially P. guajava, bearing large, yellow, round to pear-shaped fruit, and P. littorale, bearing smaller, yellowish to deep-red, oval fruit.
- gudea — flourished c2250 b.c, Sumerian ruler.
- gugas — Plural form of guga.
- guija — Lake, a lake on the border between SE Guatemala and NW El Salvador, in Central America. About 20 miles (32 km) long.
- gulag — the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
- gular — Zoology. the upper part of the throat or gullet. the front or forward part of the neck.
- gulas — Plural form of gula.
- gumba — (slang, US) A person of Sicilian descent, often used pejoratively.
- gumma — a rubbery, tumorlike lesion associated with tertiary syphilis.
- gunas — (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas) dullness or inertia (tamas) and goodness or purity (sattva)
- gunda — a rogue or hoodlum.
- gunna — (rare) alternative spelling of gonna.
- gunya — (Australia) alternative spelling of gunyah.
- gupta — a dynasty of N India (a.d. 320–540) whose court was the center of classical Indian art and literature.
- gusla — a Balkan single-stringed musical instrument that is played with a bow
- gutta — a drop, or something resembling one.
- hafun — Cape, a promontory in N Somalia, on the Indian Ocean: easternmost point in Africa.
- hague — Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.
- haiku — a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
- hanau — a city in Hesse, central Germany.
- hapuu — a Hawaiian tree fern, Cibotium splendens, the cut trunks of which are used in horticulture as pots and planters.
- haque — (spelling, jargon) /hak/ (Usenet) A variant spelling of hack, used only for the noun form and connoting an elegant hack.
- hauch — (Scotland) A cough or gasp.