5-letter words containing a, u
- batum — a city in Georgia: capital of the Adzhar Autonomous Republic; a major Black Sea port. Pop: 118 000 (2005 est)
- bauds — Plural form of baud.
- bauer — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), Agricola, Georgius.
- baugh — Samuel Adrian ("Slinging Sammy") 1914–2008, U.S. football player and coach.
- baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- baume — designating or of either of two hydrometer scales used to indicate specific gravity
- bauru — a city in E Brazil.
- bayou — A bayou is a slow-moving, marshy area of water in the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
- beaus — Plural form of beau.
- beaut — You describe someone or something as a beaut when you think they are very good.
- beaux — beau
- belau — Palau
- bhuna — an Indian dish or sauce in which spices are dry-roasted in a pan and then combined with a moistening agent such as yogurt or water
- blaeu — Willem Janszoon [vil-uh m yahn-suh n,, -sohn] /ˈvɪl əm ˈyɑn sən,, -soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer, geographer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- blaud — a large amount
- bouar — a city in the W Central African Republic.
- boyau — a minor connecting trench often built in a zigzag pattern
- braun — Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910–45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945
- brusa — Bursa.
- buaze — a flowering shrub commonly found in savannah woodland areas of Africa
- bubal — any of various antelopes, esp an extinct N African variety of hartebeest
- bubba — brother
- buffa — a comedic actress or clown in an opera
- bulla — a leaden seal affixed to a papal bull, having a representation of Saints Peter and Paul on one side and the name of the reigning pope on the other
- bunya — a tall dome-shaped Australian coniferous tree, Araucaria bidwillii, having edible cones (bunya nuts) and thickish flattened needles
- buran — a blizzard, with the wind blowing from the north and reaching gale force
- buraq — the legendary beast, a winged horse with the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock, on which Muhammad ascended to heaven.
- burga — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- burka — burqa
- burma — Myanmar: name still in popular use
- burqa — A burqa is a long garment that covers the head and body and is traditionally worn by women in Islamic countries.
- burra — Edward (John). 1905–76, British painter, noted esp for his depiction of squalid and grotesque subjects
- bursa — a small fluid-filled sac that reduces friction between movable parts of the body, esp at joints
- busan — a port in SE South Korea, on the Korea Strait: the second largest city and chief port of the country; industrial centre; two universities. Pop: 3 527 000 (2005 est)
- busra — Basra.
- buzau — city in Walachia, SE Romania: pop. 149,000
- caius — Saint, died a.d. 296, pope 283–296.
- cajun — Cajun means belonging or relating to a group of people who live mainly in Louisiana in the United States, and are descended from French people. Cajun is also used to refer to the language and culture of these people.
- camus — Albert (albɛr). 1913–60, French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, noted for his pessimistic portrayal of man's condition of isolation in an absurd world: author of the novels L'Étranger (1942) and La Peste (1947), the plays Le Malentendu (1945) and Caligula (1946), and the essays Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) and L'Homme révolté (1951): Nobel prize for literature 1957
- capua — a town in S Italy, in NW Campania: strategically important in ancient times, situated on the Appian Way. Pop: 19 041 (2001)
- caput — the main or most prominent part of an organ or structure
- carus — (medicine) coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.
- casus — an event, situation or occurrence
- cauca — a river in W Colombia, rising in the northwest and flowing north to the Magdalena River. Length: about 1350 km (840 miles)
- cauda — the area behind the anus of an animal; tail
- caulk — If you caulk something such as a boat, you fill small cracks in its surface in order to prevent it from leaking.
- cauls — a form or plate for pressing a veneer or veneers being glued to a backing or to each other.
- cauri — a monetary unit of Guinea, the 100th part of a syli.
- causa — a reason or cause
- cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?