5-letter words containing ru
- truro — a town in central Nova Scotia, in SE Canada.
- truss — to tie, bind, or fasten.
- trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- truth — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- uhuru — freedom; independence.
- uluru — a large isolated desert rock, sometimes described as the world's largest monolith, in the Northern Territory of Australia: sacred to local Aboriginal people. Height: 330m (1100 ft). Base circumference: 9 km (5.6 miles)
- uprun — to run up or ascend
- urubu — a black vulture of S America, Catharista urubu
- varus — abnormal angulation of a bone or joint, with the angle pointing away from the midline.
- virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
- wrung — simple past tense and past participle of wring.
- 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.