4-letter words containing u
- curf — a cherty limestone found in Portland stone beds
- curl — If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- curn — a grain of corn
- curr — a purring or cooing sound
- curs — a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
- curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
- cush — the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)
- cusi — A collection of indices to various web and other Internet documents. It is located at Nexor in the UK.
- cusk — a gadoid food fish, Brosmius brosme, of northern coastal waters, having a single long dorsal fin
- cuso — Canadian University Services Overseas; an organization that sends students to work as volunteers in developing countries
- cusp — any of the small elevations on the grinding or chewing surface of a tooth
- cuss — If someone cusses, they swear at someone or use bad language.
- cust — Custody.
- cute — Something or someone that is cute is very pretty or attractive, or is intended to appear pretty or attractive.
- cuts — Computer Users' Tape System
- cutt — Obsolete spelling of cut.
- cuve — a wine vat.
- cuyp — Aelbert (ˈaːlbert). 1620–91, Dutch painter of landscapes and animals
- d up — to set up a defence
- dagu — a fortified city in E Hebei province, in NE China, E of Tianjin: battles 1860, 1900.
- danu — the mother of the Tuatha De Danann: identified with the Welsh Don.
- datu — dato.
- daub — When you daub a substance such as mud or paint on something, you spread it on that thing in a rough or careless way.
- daud — a lump or chunk of something
- daut — to stroke, pet, or cuddle
- degu — a small S American rodent
- deus — God
- djvu — (application, compression, file format, graphics, web) (pronounced like "deja vu") An image compression algorithm and program developed by Yann LeCun's research group at AT&T Labs. DjVu provides high resolution digital images for distribution over the Internet. DjVu is five to 20 times more efficient than JPEG or GIF. A free web browser plug-in allows users to display DjVu images.
- dmus — Doctor of Music
- dobu — a member of a Melanesian people who inhabit the settlement of Dobu, in Papua New Guinea.
- docu — (informal) documentary.
- douc — A species of colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix.
- doug — a male given name, form of Douglas.
- doum — an African palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) bearing an edible fruit that has a taste and consistency somewhat like gingerbread; gingerbread palm
- doup — the bottom, end, or butt of something.
- dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- dout — Obsolete spelling of doubt.
- douw — Gerard [gey-rahrt] /ˈgeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1613–75, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- doux — (of champagne) very sweet.
- drau — a river in S central Europe, rising in N Italy and flowing east through Austria, then southeast along the southern Hungarian border to join the River Danube. Length: 725 km (450 miles)
- drub — to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
- drug — the cosmic principle of disorder and falsehood.
- drum — 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.
- druv — (dialectal) Simple past tense and past participle of drive.
- duad — a group of two; couple; pair.
- dual — of, relating to, or noting two.
- duan — A division of a poem corresponding to a canto.
- duar — a mountain pass
- dubb — The Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus).
- dubs — Plural form of dub.