5-letter words containing s, u
- feuds — Plural form of feud.
- ficus — any of numerous chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines belonging to the genus Ficus, of the mulberry family, having milky sap and large, thick or stiff leaves, including the edible fig, the banyan, and many species grown as ornamentals.
- flubs — a blunder.
- flues — Plural form of flue.
- flush — a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.
- focus — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fouls — something that is foul.
- fours — Plural form of four.
- fouse — Ready, eager, prompt, quick, striving forward, inclined to, willing.
- frush — (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
- frust — a fragment
- fubsy — short and stout.
- fuchs — Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- fucus — any olive-brown seaweed or alga of the genus Fucus, having branching fronds and often air bladders.
- fuels — Plural form of fuel.
- fugus — 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.
- fulls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of full.
- fumes — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- funds — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- fungs — Plural form of fung.
- funks — Plural form of funk.
- fupas — a wide area of protruding fat in the upper pubic region.
- furls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furl.
- furst — Eye dialect of first.
- fusan — Pusan.
- fused — Electricity. a protective device, used in an electric circuit, containing a conductor that melts under heat produced by an excess current, thereby opening the circuit. Compare circuit breaker.
- fusee — a wooden friction match having a large head, formerly used when a larger than normal flame was needed.
- fuses — Plural form of fuse.
- fusil — a light flintlock musket.
- fusin — Fuxin.
- fussy — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- fusty — having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
- fuzes — Plural form of fuze.
- gaius — a.d. c110–c180, Roman jurist and writer, especially on civil law.
- gansu — a province in N central China. 137,104 sq. mi. (355,099 sq. km). Capital: Lanzhou.
- gauds — Plural form of gaud.
- gaurs — Plural form of gaur.
- gause — Obsolete spelling of gauze.
- gauss — Karl Friedrich [kahrl free-drikh] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1777–1855, German mathematician and astronomer.
- genus — Biology. the usual major subdivision of a family or subfamily in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of more than one species.
- ghusl — (Islam) A full-body wash taken by Muslims to restore the body to a state of purity.
- gibus — opera hat.
- glues — Plural form of glue.
- glugs — Plural form of glug.
- gluts — to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- gouts — Plural form of gout.
- grubs — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- gruds — (slang, New Zealand) Underpants, underwear.
- grues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grue.
- grush — healthy; thriving.