5-letter words containing u, i
- input — ALPHA
- inrun — (skiing) In ski jumping, the ramp down which skiers ski to gain speed, before taking off.
- insue — Archaic form of ensue.
- intuc — Indian National Trade Union Congress
- inuit — a member of the Eskimo peoples inhabiting northernmost North America from northern Alaska to eastern Canada and Greenland.
- inula — Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
- inure — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inurn — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- inust — burnt in
- ipsus — an ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia: the scene of a battle (301 b.c.) between the successors of Alexander the Great.
- irazu — Mount, a volcano in central Costa Rica. 11,200 feet (3414 meters).
- irbus — IrDA Control
- irgun — a militant Zionist underground group, active chiefly during the period (1917–48) of British control by mandate of Palestine.
- ishum — the Akkadian god of fire and the companion of Irra.
- iskur — a river in W Bulgaria, flowing N and NE to the Danube River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- issue — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- issus — an ancient town in Asia Minor, in Cilicia: victory of Alexander the Great over Darius III 333 b.c.
- it up — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- itu-t — International Telecommunications Union
- iulus — the son of Ascanius, founder of the Julian gens or clan
- jinju — a city in S central South Korea, W of Pusan.
- juice — the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit: orange juice.
- juicy — full of juice; succulent: a juicy pear.
- julia — a female given name: derived from Julius.
- julie — a female given name, form of Julia.
- julio — (historical) A former coin of Italy, struck by Pope Julius II (1503-13).
- juvie — a juvenile, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- kaiju — A giant monster, particularly such as those common to Japanese science fiction films, like Godzilla or Gamera. Short for \u5927\u602a\u7363 (giant kaiju).
- kauai — an island in NW Hawaii. 511 sq. mi. (1325 sq. km).
- kauri — Also, kauri pine. a tall, coniferous tree, Agathis australis, of New Zealand, yielding a valuable timber and a resin.
- kiasu — self-serving, competitive, or greedy: parents who are kiasu about their children’s education.
- kindu — a town in E Zaire, on the Lualaba River.
- kingu — (in Akkadian myth) a son of Apsu and Tiamat whose blood Ea and Marduk used in creating the human race.
- kiruv — Hebrew. the act or practice of bringing secularized Jews closer to Judaism, especially Orthodox Judaism, as through seminars, meetings, and religious rituals.
- krubi — a plant of the arum family, Amorphophallus titanium, that has an unpleasant smell and produces the largest known unbranched flower
- kufic — of or relating to Kufa or its inhabitants.
- kufis — Plural form of kufi.
- kukri — a large knife having a heavy curved blade that is sharp on the concave side, used by the Napalese Gurkhas for hunting and combat.
- kukui — the candlenut tree, Aleurites moluccana, of the spurge family, having grayish leaves and clusters of small white flowers: the state tree of Hawaii.
- kulfi — A type of Indian ice cream, typically served in the shape of a cone.
- kunai — A Japanese tool and weapon, possibly derived from the masonry trowel, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
- kurmi — a member of a major agricultural caste widespread in northern and central India.
- kurti — Alt form kurta.
- laius — a king of Thebes, the husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus: unwittingly killed by Oedipus.
- libau — German name of Liepāja.
- lieus — place; stead.
- likud — a conservative political party in Israel, founded in 1973.
- linum — any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- linus — Classical Mythology. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
- linux — (operating system) ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, PowerMAC - OSF, and 68k ports all support shells, X and networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the GNU General Public License. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees Posix compliance. Linux is particularly popular for Internet Service Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux.