7-letter words containing ur
- lop nur — series of salt lakes and marshes in Xinjiang Uygur, NW China: nuclear test site.
- lourdes — a city in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures.
- louring — lowering.
- lurched — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lurcher — a crossbred dog used especially by poachers.
- lurches — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- luridly — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lurkers — Plural form of lurker.
- lurking — to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
- lurries — Plural form of lurry.
- m'sieur — monsieur
- madurai — a city in S Tamil Nadu, in S India.
- mainour — a stolen article found on the person of or near the thief: to be taken with the mainour.
- makurdi — a port in E central Nigeria, capital of Benue State on the Benue River: agricultural trade centre. Pop: 259 000 (2005 est)
- manhour — Alternative form of man-hour.
- manipur — a state in NE India between Assam and Burma. 8620 sq. mi. (22,326 sq. km). Capital: Imphal.
- mansûra — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: scene of the defeat of the Crusaders 1250 and the capture of Louis IX by the Mamelukes.
- manured — Simple past tense and past participle of manure.
- manurer — A person that deals with manure, especially one engaged in natural fertilizers.
- manures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manure.
- marburg — a city in central Germany.
- masseur — a man who provides massage as a profession or occupation.
- masuria — a region in NE Poland, formerly in East Prussia, Germany: German defeat of Russians 1914–15.
- mathura — a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India: Hindu shrine and holy city; reputed birthplace of Krishna.
- matsuri — A solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan.
- matured — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturer — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- matures — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maturin — a city in NE Venezuela.
- maureen — a female given name, Irish form of Mary.
- mauriac — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1885–1970, French novelist: Nobel prize 1952.
- maurice — German Moritz. 1521–53, German general: elector of Saxony 1547–53.
- maurist — a member of the Benedictine “Congregation of St. Maur,” founded in France in 1618, distinguished for its scholarship and literary works: suppressed during the French Revolution.
- maurois — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), (Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog) 1885–1967, French biographer and novelist.
- maurras — Charles (ʃarl). 1868–1952, French writer and political theorist, who founded (1899) the extreme right-wing group L'Action Française: sentenced (1945) to life imprisonment for supporting Pétain during World War II
- mazurka — a lively Polish dance in moderately quick triple meter.
- mcclure — Samuel Sidney, 1857–1949, U.S. editor and publisher, born in Ireland.
- measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- menkure — Mycerinus.
- mercury — Chemistry. a heavy, silver-white, highly toxic metallic element, the only one that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceutical preparations, reflecting surfaces of mirrors, and dental fillings, in certain switches, lamps, and other electric apparatus, and as a laboratory catalyst. Symbol: Hg; atomic weight: 200.59; atomic number: 80; specific gravity: 13.546 at 20°C; freezing point: −38.9°C; boiling point: 357°C.
- minceur — (of food) low-fat or low-calorie
- miscure — An incorrect cure of any kind.
- misturn — (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- mixture — a product of mixing.
- monture — a mounting or a means for supporting or fixing something in place
- monuron — a white crystalline solid, C 9 H 11 ClN 2 O, used as a herbicide, especially for broad-leaved plants.
- morsure — a bite or the act of biting
- mourned — Simple past tense and past participle of mourn.
- mourner — A person who attends a funeral as a relative or friend of the dead person.
- mowburn — the natural process of heating and fermenting that takes place when hay or corn is piled up when it is damp or green