5-letter words containing ru
- 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.
- durum — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- ecrus — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- eruca — (zoology) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.
- eruct — Emit stomach gas noisily through the mouth; belch.
- erugo — verdigris
- erupt — (of a volcano) become active and eject lava, ash, and gases.
- eurus — the east or southeast wind personified
- forum — the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
- fruit — any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
- frump — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- frush — (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
- frust — a fragment
- garum — A fish sauce popular in Ancient Rome.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- gruel — a light, usually thin, cooked cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water or milk.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- gruff — low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- gruft — (dialect) the particles of soil that are spattered up onto grass by the rain.
- gruid — (zoology) Any member of the Gruidae.
- grume — blood when viscous.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- grunt — to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
- grush — healthy; thriving.
- gurus — Plural form of guru.
- gweru — a city in central Zimbabwe.
- gyrus — a convolution, especially of the brain.
- horus — a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- inrun — (skiing) In ski jumping, the ramp down which skiers ski to gain speed, before taking off.
- jorum — a large bowl or container for holding drink.
- jurua — a river in E and W South America, flowing NE from E Peru through W Brazil to the Amazon. 1200 miles (1930 km) long.
- karun — a river in SW Iran, flowing SW to the Shatt-al-Arab. About 515 miles (830 km) long.
- kauru — the edible stem of the cabbage tree
- kiruv — Hebrew. the act or practice of bringing secularized Jews closer to Judaism, especially Orthodox Judaism, as through seminars, meetings, and religious rituals.
- korun — an aluminum bronze coin and monetary unit of the Czech Republic, equal to 100 halers. Abbreviation: Kčs.
- krubi — a plant of the arum family, Amorphophallus titanium, that has an unpleasant smell and produces the largest known unbranched flower
- krump — Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance.
- krunk — Alternative spelling of crunk.
- krupp — Alfred [al-frid;; German ahl-freyt] /ˈæl frɪd;; German ˈɑl freɪt/ (Show IPA), 1812–87, German industrialist and manufacturer of armaments.
- kurus — a monetary unit of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira; piaster.
- larum — alarum.