6-letter words containing a, r, u
- armour — In former times, armour was special metal clothing that soldiers wore for protection in battle.
- armure — a silk or wool fabric with a small cobbled pattern
- arnaud — Yvonne. 1892–1958, French actress, who was well-known on the London stage and in British films. A theatre in Guildford is named after her
- arnulf — a.d. 850?–899, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 887–899: crowned 896.
- around — To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point.
- arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- artaud — Antonin (ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃). 1896–1948, French stage director and dramatist, whose concept of the theatre of cruelty is expounded in Manifeste du théâtre de la cruauté (1932) and Le Théâtre et son double (1938)
- artful — If you describe someone as artful, you mean that they are clever and skilful at achieving what they want, especially by deceiving people.
- arthur — a legendary king of the Britons in the sixth century ad, who led Celtic resistance against the Saxons: possibly based on a historical figure; represented as leader of the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot
- arunta — Aranda.
- arusha — a city in N Tanganyika, in Tanzania.
- asarum — the dried strong-scented root of the wild ginger plant: a flavouring agent and source of an aromatic oil used in perfumery, formerly used in medicine
- asbury — Francis1745-1816; 1st Methodist bishop in U.S.
- ashura — a Shiah festival observed on the tenth day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar to commemorate the death of the martyr Imam Hussein bin Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 61 ah (680 ad)
- asshur — Ashur1
- 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
- asuras — Plural form of asura.
- 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.
- atyrau — a port city in W Kazakhstan, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea.
- 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.
- audrey — a feminine name
- augers — Plural form of auger.
- augier — Guillaume Victor Émile [gee-yohm veek-tawr ey-meel] /giˈyoʊm vikˈtɔr eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1820–89, French dramatist.
- augurs — Plural form of augur.
- augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
- aulard — François Victor Alphonse [frahn-swa veek-tawr al-fawns] /frɑ̃ˈswa vikˈtɔr alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1849–1928, French historian.
- aulder — old.
- aumbry — ambry.
- 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)
- aurist — a former name for audiologist
- auroch — Alternative spelling of aurochs.
- aurora — an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands, curtains, or streamers of light, usually green, red, or yellow, that move across the sky in polar regions. It is caused by collisions between air molecules and charged particles from the sun that are trapped in the earth's magnetic field
- aurous — of or containing gold, esp in the monovalent state
- auster — the south wind
- auteur — You can refer to a film director as an auteur when they have a very strong artistic influence on the films they make.
- author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
- avruga — herring roe with a smoky flavour, sometimes used as a less expensive alternative to caviar
- barbut — an open-faced Italian helmet made from one piece of metal and reaching the shoulders
- barful — presenting difficulties or obstacles
- barium — Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal.
- barnum — P(hineas) T(aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
- barque — a sailing ship of three or more masts having the foremasts rigged square and the aftermast rigged fore-and-aft