4-letter words containing u
- chug — When a vehicle chugs somewhere, it goes there slowly, noisily and with difficulty.
- chum — Your chum is your friend.
- chup — Be quiet!.
- chur — an informal expression of agreement
- chut — an expression of surprise, impatience, or annoyance
- clou — the crux; focus
- club — A club is an organization of people interested in a particular activity or subject who usually meet on a regular basis.
- clue — A clue to a problem or mystery is something that helps you to find the answer to it.
- cluj — an industrial city in NW Romania, on the Someşul-Mic River: former capital of Transylvania. Pop: 297 000 (2005 est)
- clum — Silence.
- clut — colour palette
- cnut — a.d. 994?–1035, Danish king of England 1017–35; of Denmark 1018–35; and of Norway 1028–35.
- coue — Émile (emil). 1857–1926, French psychologist and pharmacist: advocated psychotherapy by autosuggestion
- coun — Abbreviation of council.
- coup — When there is a coup, a group of people seize power in a country.
- cpsu — (formerly) Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- crud — You use crud to refer to any disgustingly dirty or sticky substance.
- crue — Obsolete form of crew.
- crum — Obsolete form of crumb.
- crus — the leg, esp from the knee to the foot
- crut — crud (def 1).
- crux — The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
- cruz — San Juan de la [sahn hwahn de lah] /sɑn ʰwɑn dɛ lɑ/ (Show IPA), John of the Cross, Saint.
- cseu — (in Britain) Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
- cuba — a republic and the largest island in the Caribbean, at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico: became a Spanish colony after its discovery by Columbus in 1492; gained independence after the Spanish-American War of 1898 but remained subject to US influence until declared a people's republic under Castro in 1960; subject of an international crisis in 1962, when the US blockaded the island in order to compel the Soviet Union to dismantle its nuclear missile base. Sugar comprises about 80 per cent of total exports; the economy was badly affected by loss of trade following the collapse of the Soviet Union and by the continuing US trade embargo. Diplomatic ties with the US restored in 2014. Language: Spanish. Religion: nonreligious majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Havana. Pop: 11 061 886 (2013 est). Area: 110 922 sq km (42 827 sq miles)
- cube — A cube is a solid object with six square surfaces which are all the same size.
- cubs — the junior branch of the Scout Association
- cuch — CUrry-CHurch.
- cuck — (slang) A cuckold.
- cuda — a barracuda.
- cuds — the portion of food that a ruminant returns from the first stomach to the mouth to chew a second time.
- cued — a long, tapering rod, tipped with a soft leather pad, used to strike the ball in billiards, pool, etc.
- cues — the letter Q, q.
- cuff — The cuffs of a shirt or dress are the parts at the ends of the sleeves, which are thicker than the rest of the sleeve.
- cuit — the ankle
- cuke — a cucumber
- cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
- culm — coal-mine waste
- culo — the buttocks.
- cult — A cult is a fairly small religious group, especially one which is considered strange.
- cume — Marketing. cumulative/accumulated audience: the number of people reached by an advertising or broadcasting medium over a specified period of time: The station has a weekly cume of 5.5 million. the cumulative gross earnings from a movie, album, etc.: the cume for the Star Wars franchise.
- cuna — a member of a group of American Indian people inhabiting settlements on the Isthmus of Panama and islands in the Gulf of San Blas.
- cunt — Cunt is an offensive word that some people use to refer to a woman's vagina.
- cuny — (nautical) An ordinary seaman.
- cupe — Canadian Union of Public Employees
- cupl — Cornell University Programming Language. A language for simple mathematics problems, based on CORC, with PL/I-like syntax.
- cups — a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- curd — The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
- cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.