3-letter words containing u
- rou — Uruguay (international car registration)
- rsu — An RSU is a grant valued in terms of company stock that takes the form of a promise that employees will receive stock in the future either as shares or the cash equivalent.
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- ruc — (the former) Royal Ulster Constabulary, now superseded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
- rud — the colour red, or redness
- rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
- rum — Arabic name of Rome, once used to designate the Byzantine Empire.
- run — execution
- rus — Russia (international car registration)
- rut — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
- sau — German name of Sava.
- sbu — strategic business unit: a division within an organization responsible for marketing its own range of products
- shu — the god of the air, sometimes represented with arms upraised, supporting the vault of heaven.
- sku — stock-keeping unit
- sou — (formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- stu — a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- sub — a submarine.
- sud — Sudan (international car registration)
- sue — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
- sug — to sell a product while pretending to conduct market research
- sui — a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- suk — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1874–1935, Czech composer and violinist.
- sum — the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14.
- sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
- suo — in one's own or rightful place.
- sup — to take liquid into the mouth in small quantities, as by spoonfuls or sips.
- suq — suk.
- sur — upon; on the basis of: sur mortgage.
- sus — suspicion
- suv — sport-utility vehicle.
- tau — the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet (T, τ).
- tiu — an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- tpu — Text Processing Utility
- tub — a bathtub.
- tuc — In Britain, the TUC is an organization which represents trade unions, and to which most trade unions belong. TUC is an abbreviation for 'Trades Union Congress'.
- tuf — Trade Union Federation
- tug — to pull at with force, vigor, or effort.
- tui — a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- tum — to tease (wool) in the preliminary carding operation, or to open out the fibers prior to carding.
- tun — a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
- tup — Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- tut — an exclamation of “tut.”.
- tux — tuxedo.
- tuz — a saltwater lake, above sea level, in W central Turkey. About 625 sq. mi. (1620 sq. km).
- u/s — unserviceable
- u4e — yours for ever
- uae — United Arab Emirates
- uam — underwater-to-air missile
- uan — User Action Notation. A notation from VPI for representation of activity in a graphical user interface.