4-letter words that end in u
- emeu — Obsolete form of emu.
- erhu — A Chinese two-stringed musical instrument held in the lap and played with a bow.
- esau — son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Jacob, to whom he sold his birthright (Genesis 25)
- fpwu — Federal Printing Workers Union
- frau — a married woman; a wife.
- fufu — a doughlike West African dish of boiled and ground plantain, yam, or cassava, made into balls to go with soups or stews.
- fugu — any of several species of puffer fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan, after the removal of the skin and certain organs which contain a deadly poison.
- genu — the knee.
- geru — An earthy-red color. In India this colour is used to paint flowerpots and tree bases.
- gifu — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- gmwu — General and Municipal Workers Union
- gosu — Person of great skill, master, expert.
- gpmu — Graphical, Paper and Media Union
- guru — ("Guru") 1469–1539, Indian religious leader: founder of Sikhism.
- habu — a large venomous snake, Trimeresurus flavoviridis, of Okinawa and other Ryukyu Islands: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- haku — (in Hawaii) a crown of fresh flowers.
- hapu — A subtribe of an iwi; the basic political unit within Māori society.
- huhu — A beetle, Prionoplus reticularis, endemic to New Zealand.
- hutu — a member of a Bantu farming people of Rwanda and Burundi, in central Africa.
- iaru — International Amateur Radio Union
- ibeu — Independent Bakery Employees Union
- iceu — Inter Company Employees Union
- iglu — an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
- ilwu — International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
- innu — a member of an Algonquian people living in Labrador and northern Quebec
- jehu — a king of Israel noted for his furious chariot attacks. II Kings 9.
- jesu — Jesus.
- jfcu — Jamaica Fishermen Co-operative Union
- juju — an object venerated superstitiously and used as a fetish or amulet by tribal peoples of West Africa.
- juku — (in Japan) a school, attended in addition to one's regular school, where students prepare for college entrance examinations.
- kagu — a raillike bird, Rhinochetus jubatus, of the island of New Caledonia, having a gray body, black-and-white wings, and a long, shaggy crest: an endangered species.
- kanu — Kenya African National Union
- kapu — (in Hawaiian traditional culture and religion) a set of rules and prohibitions for everyday life.
- kivu — Lake, a lake in central Africa, on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. 1040 sq. mi. (2700 sq. km).
- kofu — a city on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- koku — a Japanese unit of dry measure equivalent to 5.12 bushels (1.8 hectoliters).
- koru — a stylized curved pattern used esp in carving
- kudu — a large African antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, the male of which has large corkscrewlike horns.
- kuku — a mussel
- kuru — a fatal degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive lack of coordination and dementia, known only among certain Melanesian peoples, especially the Fore of New Guinea, and caused by a slow virus: now virtually extinct.
- kutu — a body louse
- latu — an edible Asian seaweed, Caulerpa racemosa, with small green berry-like capsules
- lieu — place; stead.
- litu — a plural of litas.
- lomu — Jonah.1975–2015, New Zealand Rugby Union player; scored 37 tries in 63 games for the All Blacks (1994–2002)
- luau — a feast of Hawaiian food, usually held outdoors and usually accompanied by Hawaiian entertainment.
- lulu — a fixed allowance paid to a legislator in lieu of reimbursement for actual expenses.
- manu — the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race.
- maru — A suffix of Japanese ship names.
- masu — A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.