6-letter words containing ur
- coburg — a rounded loaf with a cross cut on the top
- colour — The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
- colure — either of two great circles on the celestial sphere, one of which passes through the celestial poles and the equinoxes and the other through the poles and the solstices
- concur — If one person concurs with another person, the two people agree. You can also say that two people concur.
- conure — any of various small American parrots of the genus Aratinga and related genera
- cource — Misspelling of course.
- courie — to nestle or snuggle
- course — Course is often used in the expression 'of course', or instead of 'of course' in informal spoken English. See of course.
- courts — Plural form of court.
- cratur — a person
- crural — of or relating to the leg or thigh
- curacy — the office or position of curate
- curagh — a coracle.
- curare — black resin obtained from certain tropical South American trees, esp Chondrodendron tomentosum, acting on the motor nerves to cause muscular paralysis: used medicinally as a muscle relaxant and by South American Indians as an arrow poison
- curari — Alternative form of curare.
- curate — A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
- curbed — Also, British, kerb. a rim, especially of joined stones or concrete, along a street or roadway, forming an edge for a sidewalk.
- curber — a person or thing that curbs or restrains something
- curded — Simple past tense and past participle of curd.
- curdle — If milk or eggs curdle or if you curdle them, they separate into different bits.
- curers — Plural form of curer.
- curfew — A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
- curiae — Plural form of curia.
- curial — one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
- curies — Plural form of curie.
- curing — the process of preserving food
- curios — any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
- curite — a red-orange radioactive mineral, the hydrated oxide of uranium and lead
- curium — a silvery-white metallic transuranic element artificially produced from plutonium. Symbol: Cm; atomic no: 96; half-life of most stable isotope, 247Cm: 1.6 x 107 years; valency: 3 and 4; relative density: 13.51 (calculated); melting pt: 1345±400°C
- curled — in a curved or spiral shape or position
- curler — Curlers are small plastic or metal tubes that women roll their hair round in order to make it curly.
- curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
- curley — James M(ichael) 1874–1958, U.S. politician.
- curnow — (Thomas) Allen (Monro). 1911–2001, New Zealand poet and anthologist
- curple — The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse's saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward.
- curran — a currant
- curred — to make a low, purring sound, as a cat.
- currie — to cook or flavor (food) with curry powder or a similar combination of spices: to curry eggs.
- cursal — of or belonging to a set course or rotation, esp of a canon or prebendary in certain churches
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- curser — the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall a person, group, etc.
- curses — an expression of disappointment or dismay
- cursor — On a computer screen, the cursor is a small shape that indicates where anything that is typed by the user will appear.
- cursus — a Neolithic earthwork enclosure comprising parallel banks
- curtal — cut short
- curter — Comparative form of curt.
- curtin — John Joseph. 1885–1945, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1941–45)
- curtis — a masculine name: dim. Curt
- curtly — rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner.
- curtsy — If a woman or a girl curtsies, she lowers her body briefly, bending her knees and sometimes holding her skirt with both hands, as a way of showing respect for an important person.