5-letter words containing u, r
- curds — Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
- curdy — full of curd
- cured — (of food) treated by salting, smoking, or drying in order to preserve it
- curer — A healer.
- cures — Plural form of cure.
- curet — a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for the removal of tissue from the walls of body cavities
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- curls — Plural form of curl.
- curly — Curly hair is full of curls.
- curns — a grain.
- curny — granular
- currs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curr.
- curry — Curry is a dish composed of meat and vegetables, or just vegetables, in a sauce containing hot spices. It is usually eaten with rice and is one of the main dishes of India.
- curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- curst — a simple past tense and past participle of curse.
- curts — a male given name, form of Curtis.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- curvy — If someone describes a woman as curvy, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- cuter — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cyrus — known as Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder. died ?529 bc, king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire
- dauer — (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
- debur — to remove burs from (a piece of machined metal)
- demur — If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
- dorum — Draft Once ReUse Many
- doura — a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- douro — a river in SW Europe, flowing W from N Spain through N Portugal to the Atlantic. About 475 miles (765 km) long.
- dreul — Obsolete form of drool.
- drouk — to wet thoroughly; drench.
- drubs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drub.
- drugs — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
- druid — a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.
- drums — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- drung — drang.
- drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- drupe — any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.
- druse — Islam. a member of an independent religious sect living chiefly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, established in the 11th century as a branch of Ismaʿili Shiʿism and containing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and believing in the transmigration of souls and the ultimate perfection of humankind.
- drusy — (mineralogy) Having a druse.
- druxy — (of timber, archaic) Having decayed spots or streaks of a whitish colour.
- druze — Islam. a member of an independent religious sect living chiefly in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, established in the 11th century as a branch of Ismaʿili Shiʿism and containing elements of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and believing in the transmigration of souls and the ultimate perfection of humankind.
- druzy — Alternative spelling of drusy.
- duero — Spanish name of Douro.
- duper — a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
- dupre — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1812–89, French painter.
- durag — a kerchief or scarf worn on the head to protect the hairdo, especially after kinky hair has been straightened.
- dural — of or relating to the dura mater.
- duran — Roberto [ruh-bair-toh;; Spanish raw-ber-taw] /rəˈbɛər toʊ;; Spanish rɔˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Panamanian boxer.
- duras — dura mater.