5-letter words containing u, r, e
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- 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.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- mured — Simple past tense and past participle of mure.
- 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.
- murex — any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- murre — either of two black and white diving birds of the genus Uria, of northern seas, U. aalge (common murre) or U. lomvia (thick-billed murre)
- murse — (US slang) a man's purse.
- muser — to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.
- muter — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- mweru — a lake in S central Africa, between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- nehru — Jawaharlal [juh-wah-her-lahl] /dʒəˈwɑ hər lɑl/ (Show IPA), 1889–1964, Hindu political leader in India: first prime minister of the republic of India 1947–64 (father of Indira Gandhi).
- neur- — neuro-
- neuro — (informal) Neurologist.
- nuder — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- nuker — One who nukes.
- 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.
- orgue — (military) Any of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
- ourie — shabby; dingy.
- outer — situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior: outer garments; an outer wall.
- outre — passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- ouvre — Misspelling of oeuvre.
- pareu — lavalava.
- perdu — hidden; concealed; obscured.
- pre-u — (in Britain) a public examination for secondary school pupils wishing to enter university, offered as an alternative to A level
- prude — a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- prune — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- pucer — of a dark or brownish purple.
- puker — a person who vomits
- puree — a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- purer — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purge — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- quare — remarkable or strange
- queer — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- querk — (transitive) To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.
- quern — a primitive, hand-operated mill for grinding grain.
- query — a question; an inquiry.
- quire — a set of 24 uniform sheets of paper.
- re-up — to re-enlist
- 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.
- rebut — to refute by evidence or argument.
- rebuy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- recur — to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- recut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- redub — to fix or repair
- redux — brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
- regur — a rich, black, loamy soil found in India
- 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.
- rerun — to run again.