6-letter words containing u
- assuan — Aswan
- assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
- assure — If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
- astrut — in an distended or projecting manner
- astute — If you describe someone as astute, you think they show an understanding of behaviour and situations, and are skilful at using this knowledge to their own advantage.
- asuras — Plural form of asura.
- asylum — If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
- atreus — a king of Mycenae, son of Pelops, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and member of the family known as the Atreids (ˈeɪtrɪɪdz )
- atrium — An atrium is a part of a building such as a hotel or shopping centre, which extends up through several floors of the building and often has a glass roof.
- attius — Lucius, Accius, Lucius.
- attune — to adjust or accustom (a person or thing); acclimatize
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- au jus — (of meat) served in its own gravy
- au vol — a cry used to encourage a hawk to fly.
- aubade — a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- aubrey — John. 1626–97, English antiquary and author, noted for his vivid biographies of his contemporaries, Brief Lives (edited 1898)
- auburn — Auburn hair is reddish brown.
- auceps — a person who catches hawks
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- audial — of or relating to sound and the sense of hearing
- audile — a person who possesses a faculty for auditory imagery that is more distinct than his visual or other imagery
- auding — the practice of listening to and processing spoken language in order to understand
- audio- — indicating hearing or sound
- audion — an early type of triode.
- audism — The notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or behave in the manner of one who hears.
- audits — Plural form of audit.
- audrey — a feminine name
- augcog — augmented cognition
- augean — extremely dirty or corrupt
- augeas — king of the Epeans in Elis and one of the Argonauts.
- augend — a number to which another number, the addend, is added
- augers — Plural form of auger.
- aughts — Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession.
- augier — Guillaume Victor Émile [gee-yohm veek-tawr ey-meel] /giˈyoʊm vikˈtɔr eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1820–89, French dramatist.
- augite — a black or greenish-black mineral of the pyroxene group, found in igneous rocks. Composition: calcium magnesium iron aluminium silicate. General formula: (Ca,Mg,Fe,Al)(Si,Al)2O6. Crystal structure: monoclinic
- augurs — Plural form of augur.
- augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- august — August is the eighth month of the year in the Western calendar.
- auklet — any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus
- aulard — François Victor Alphonse [frahn-swa veek-tawr al-fawns] /frɑ̃ˈswa vikˈtɔr alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1849–1928, French historian.
- aulder — old.
- aumbry — ambry.
- auntie — Someone's auntie is their aunt.
- auntly — of or like an aunt
- aurate — any salt of auric acid
- aureus — a gold coin of the Roman Empire
- auride — (inorganic chemistry) Any anion of gold; any salt containing such an anion.
- aurify — to turn into gold
- auriga — a conspicuous constellation in the N hemisphere between the Great Bear and Orion, at the edge of the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Capella and the supergiant eclipsing binary star Epsilon Aurigae
- auriol — Vincent (vɛ̃sɑ̃). 1884–1966, French statesman; president of the Fourth Republic (1947–54)