5-letter words containing u, s, e
- mutes — Plural form of mute.
- muxes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mux.
- negus — a title of Ethiopian royalty.
- neuse — a river in E central North Carolina, flowing SE to Pamlico Sound. 275 miles (442 km) long.
- neuss — a city W Germany, near Düsseldorf.
- nevus — any congenital anomaly of the skin, including moles and various types of birthmarks.
- nexus — a means of connection; tie; link.
- nouse — (neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
- nudes — Plural form of nude.
- nukes — a nuclear or thermonuclear weapon.
- 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.
- oecus — (in an ancient Roman house) an apartment, especially a dining room, decorated with columns.
- ouens — Plural form of ou.
- oused — Simple past tense and past participle of ouse.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- pause — a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- pseud — a person of fatuously earnest intellectual, artistic, or social pretensions.
- pubes — the lower part of the abdomen, especially the region between the right and left iliac regions.
- pules — to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pulse — the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
- purse — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- puses — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pusey — Edward Bouverie [boo-vuh-ree] /ˈbu və ri/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, English clergyman.
- quest — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- queys — a heifer.
- 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.
- 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.
- reuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- roues — a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
- rules — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- runes — 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as bad as line noise, but close. Compare casting the runes, Great Runes. 2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM PC).
- salue — a salute
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- saute — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- scute — a dermal bony plate, as on an armadillo, or a large horny plate, as on a turtle.
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- segue — to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
- seoul — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- seque — "Seque: A Programming Language for Manipulating Sequences", R.E. Griswold et al, Comp Langs 13(1):13-22 (1988).
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- setup — Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- seuss — Dr, Geisel, Theodor Seuss.
- shute — Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway) 1899–1960, British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
- sieur — sir
- slued — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- slues — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- souse — to swoop or pounce upon.
- speug — a sparrow