5-letter words starting with cu
- curer — A healer.
- cures — Plural form of cure.
- curet — a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for the removal of tissue from the walls of body cavities
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- curie — Marie (mari). 1867–1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
- curio — A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare.
- curli — curled hairlike processes on the surface of the bacterium Escherichia coli by means of which the bacterium adheres to and infects wounds
- curls — Plural form of curl.
- curly — Curly hair is full of curls.
- curns — a grain.
- curny — granular
- currs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of curr.
- curry — Curry is a dish composed of meat and vegetables, or just vegetables, in a sauce containing hot spices. It is usually eaten with rice and is one of the main dishes of India.
- curse — If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- curst — a simple past tense and past participle of curse.
- curts — a male given name, form of Curtis.
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- curvy — If someone describes a woman as curvy, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- cusco — Cuzco
- cusec — a unit of flow equal to 1 cubic foot per second. 1 cusec is equivalent to 0.028 317 cubic metre per second
- cushy — A cushy job or situation is pleasant because it does not involve much work or effort.
- cusks — Plural form of cusk.
- cusps — a point or pointed end.
- cuspy — (of a computer program) well-designed and user-friendly
- cusso — a tree of the rose family native to the mountains of central and eastern Africa
- cusum — a statistical technique used to analyse an individual's use of language
- cutan — (biochemistry) A hydrocarbon polymer, of uncertain structure but thought to be similar to kerogen, found in some plants.
- cutch — Kutch
- cuter — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cutes — attractive, especially in a dainty way; pleasingly pretty: a cute child; a cute little apartment.
- cutey — cutie
- cutie — a person regarded as appealing or attractive, esp a girl or woman
- cutin — a waxy waterproof substance, consisting of derivatives of fatty acids, that is the main constituent of plant cuticle
- cutis — the vertebrate skin, including both of its layers, the dermis and the epidermis
- cutto — a large knife
- cutty — short or cut short
- cutup — a person who clowns, plays practical jokes, etc. to attract attention
- cuvee — individual batch or blend of wine
- cuzco — a city in S central Peru: former capital of the Inca Empire, with extensive Inca remains; university (1692). Pop: 307 000 (2005 est)