5-letter words containing u, s, e
- sprue — a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.
- spume — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- squeg — (of an electronic circuit or component) to produce an output that oscillates between a certain maximum and zero, especially when due to the effect of a grid.
- stupe — a stupid person.
- suave — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- suber — cork (def 6).
- sucre — Antonio José de [ahn-taw-nyaw haw-se th e] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ hɔˈsɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1830, Venezuelan general and South American liberator: 1st president of Bolivia 1826–28.
- suede — kid or other leather finished with a soft, napped surface, on the flesh side or on the outer side after removal of a thin outer layer.
- suent — smooth
- suets — the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- suety — the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- suger — 1081–1151, French ecclesiastic and statesman, who acted as adviser to Louis VI and regent (1147–49) to Louis VII. As abbot of Saint-Denis (1122–51) he influenced the development of Gothic architecture
- suite — a number of things forming a series or set.
- sumer — an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- super — Informal. a superintendent, especially of an apartment house. supermarket. supernumerary. supervisor.
- suppe — Franz von [frahnts fuh n] /frɑnts fən/ (Show IPA), 1819–95, Austrian composer.
- surer — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- surge — a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep: the onward surge of an angry mob.
- susie — a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- suzie — a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- touse — to handle roughly; dishevel.
- trues — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- tues. — Tues. is a written abbreviation for Tuesday.
- tules — either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tunes — a succession of musical sounds forming an air or melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- unser — Albert ("Al") born 1939, and his brother Robert, (Bobby), born 1934, U.S. racing-car drivers.
- unset — not set; not solidified or made firm, as concrete or asphalt.
- unsew — to remove or rip the stitches of (something sewed).
- unsex — to deprive of sexual power; render impotent or frigid; spay or castrate.
- upsee — a drunken festivity
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- urase — urease.
- usage — a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
- usbeg — Uzbek.
- usbek — Uzbek.
- usher — James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
- usnea — any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
- usque — a friend to the last degree.
- usure — to charge interest at a high or illegal rate
- venus — an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
- viseu — a city in N central Portugal: 12th-century cathedral. Pop: 93 502 (2001)
- wenus — Wasted Energy Negotiation Union System
- xerus — an African ground squirrel of the genus Xerus, having spiny fur, very short ears, and a long tail, and including the species X. rutilus of northeastern Africa and X. erythropus of western and central Africa.
- youse — You (usually more than one person).
- zebus — Plural form of zebu.