5-letter words containing ru
- rumpy — a tailless Manx cat
- runch — the white charlock
- rundi — a member of a people constituting virtually the entire population of Burundi.
- runed — having runes inscribed: a runed ornament.
- 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).
- runic — consisting of or set down in runes: runic inscriptions.
- runny — tending to run or drip: a runny paste.
- runty — stunted; dwarfish: The runty puppy seems the most playful of the litter.
- runup — the testing of an airplane engine by accelerating the motor.
- rupee — a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- rupia — a type of skin eruption
- rural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- rurik — died a.d. 879, Scandinavian prince: founder of the Russian monarchy.
- rushy — abounding with rushes or their stems.
- ruska — Ernst (August Friedrich) [ernst ou-goo st free-drikh] /ɛrnst ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel prize 1986.
- rusma — a Turkish depilatory
- rusty — restive; stubborn: a rusty horse.
- rutin — a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 2 7 H 3 0 O 1 6 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- rutty — full of or abounding in ruts, as a road.
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sarus — a large Indian crane, Grus antigone
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- shrub — any of various acidulated beverages made from the juice of fruit, sugar, and other ingredients, often including alcohol.
- shrug — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- sirup — to bring to the form or consistency of syrup.
- sorus — Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- 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.
- sprug — a house sparrow
- sruti — the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- syrup — any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- thru' — Thru' is sometimes used a written abbreviation for through.
- thrum — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
- torun — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- torus — Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- truce — a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
- truck — a shuffling jitterbug step.
- trudy — a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- trued — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- truer — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trues — being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false: a true story.
- trugo — a game similar to croquet, originally improvised in Victoria from the rubber discs used as buffers on railway carriages
- trule — transformational rule.
- trull — a prostitute; strumpet.
- truly — in accordance with fact or truth; truthfully.
- trump — a trumpet.
- trunk — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.