6-letter words containing u, r, e
- cupper — a person who performs the procedure of cupping.
- curare — black resin obtained from certain tropical South American trees, esp Chondrodendron tomentosum, acting on the motor nerves to cause muscular paralysis: used medicinally as a muscle relaxant and by South American Indians as an arrow poison
- curate — A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
- curbed — Also, British, kerb. a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
- curber — a person or thing that curbs or restrains something
- curded — Simple past tense and past participle of curd.
- curdle — If milk or eggs curdle or if you curdle them, they separate into different bits.
- curers — Plural form of curer.
- curfew — A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
- curiae — Plural form of curia.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curite — a red-orange radioactive mineral, the hydrated oxide of uranium and lead
- curled — in a curved or spiral shape or position
- curler — Curlers are small plastic or metal tubes that women roll their hair round in order to make it curly.
- curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
- curley — James M(ichael) 1874–1958, U.S. politician.
- curple — The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward.
- curred — to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- currie — to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- curser — the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curses — an expression of disappointment or dismay
- curter — Comparative form of curt.
- curule — (in ancient Rome) of the highest rank, esp one entitled to use a curule chair
- curved — A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
- curves — Plural form of curve.
- curvet — a low leap with all four feet off the ground
- curvey — curved.
- cusper — A person considered to have been born on a cusp between significant generations.
- cusser — One who uses cusses.
- custer — George Armstrong. 1839–76, US cavalry general: Civil War hero, killed fighting the Sioux at Little Bighorn, Montana
- cutler — a person who makes or sells cutlery
- cutter — A cutter is a tool that you use for cutting through something.
- cuvier — Georges (Jean-Leopold-Nicolas-Frédéric) (ʒɔrʒ), Baron. 1769–1832, French zoologist and statesman; founder of the sciences of comparative anatomy and palaeontology
- dauber — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- dauner — an amble or walk
- deburr — to remove burrs from (a workpiece)
- decury — (in ancient Rome) a body of ten men
- demure — If you describe someone, usually a young woman, as demure, you mean they are quiet and rather shy, usually in a way that you like and find appealing, and behave very correctly.
- demurs — Plural form of demur.
- derust — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deucer — Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
- deurne — a town in N Belgium, a suburb of E Antwerp: site of Antwerp airport. Pop: 68 308 (2002 est)
- devour — If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
- diseur — a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.
- doucer — sedate; modest; quiet.
- douser — a person or thing that douses.
- douter — an implement for snuffing out candles, consisting either of a scissorlike device with two broad flat blades or of a cone at the end of a handle.