6-letter words containing UR
Embark on an exploration of 6-letter words that contain the letter UR. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate UR within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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course | 8 | general line of orientation | the river takes a southern course |
return | 6 | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | the average return was about 5% |
future | 9 | the time yet to come | - |
turned | 7 | in an unpalatable state | - |
during | 8 | In the time of; as long as the action or existence of. | during life |
murder | 9 | kill intentionally and with premeditation | The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered |
figure | 10 | one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | - |
church | 16 | a service conducted in a house of worship | don't be late for church |
nature | 6 | a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | the laws of nature |
surely | 9 | definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely') | the results are surely encouraging |
buried | 9 | placed in a grave | the hastily buried corpses |
source | 8 | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to | he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
burned | 9 | ruined by overcooking | - |
fourth | 12 | in the fourth place | fourthly, you must pay the rent on the first of the month |
honour | 9 | the state of being honored | - |
urgent | 7 | compelling immediate action | the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!' |
favour | 12 | an act of gracious kindness | - |
secure | 8 | immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | a secure telephone connection |
colour | 8 | any material used for its color | - |
assure | 6 | cause to feel sure; give reassurance to | The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe |
turkey | 13 | an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | the first experiment was a real turkey |
burden | 9 | weight down with a load | - |
cursed | 9 | deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed |
absurd | 9 | a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless | The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth |
purple | 10 | a purple color or pigment | - |
bureau | 8 | furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | - |
mature | 8 | (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | - |
turtle | 6 | overturn accidentally | - |
injury | 16 | a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | - |
ensure | 6 | be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | - |
turner | 6 | United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951) | - |
luxury | 16 | the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | - |
burger | 9 | United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995) | - |
endure | 7 | persist for a specified period of time | - |
pursue | 8 | carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | She pursued many activities |
murphy | 16 | an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | - |
burial | 8 | concealing something under the ground | - |
labour | 8 | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | - |
survey | 12 | short descriptive summary (of events) | - |
humour | 11 | the quality of being funny | - |
murray | 11 | Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915) | - |
purely | 11 | restricted to something | - |
purity | 11 | the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | - |
curfew | 14 | an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
bourne | 8 | an archaic term for a goal or destination | - |
yogurt | 10 | a custard-like food made from curdled milk | - |
surfer | 9 | someone who engages in surfboarding | - |
aurora | 6 | the first light of day | - |
burton | 8 | English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890) | - |
hurrah | 12 | a victory cheer | let's give the team a big hurrah |
hurray | 12 | - | - |
laurel | 6 | United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965) | - |
curses | 8 | - | - |
detour | 7 | a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | - |
armour | 8 | tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | - |
devour | 10 | eat greedily | he devoured three sandwiches |
sturdy | 10 | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | sturdy young athletes |
hurley | 12 | - | - |
rumour | 8 | tell or spread rumors | - |
manure | 8 | spread manure, as for fertilization | - |
turnip | 8 | widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root | - |
blurry | 11 | indistinct or hazy in outline | the trees were just blurry shapes |
burrow | 11 | move through by or as by digging | burrow through the forest |
tumour | 8 | an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | - |
turban | 8 | a small round woman's hat | - |
suburb | 10 | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | - |
purify | 14 | remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | purify the water |
unsure | 6 | lacking self-confidence | a very unsure young man |
sulfur | 9 | an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | - |
neural | 6 | of or relating to the nervous system | neural disorder |
injure | 13 | hurt the feelings of | - |
gurney | 10 | a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
purest | 8 | - | - |
curved | 12 | having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | the curved tusks of a walrus |
burner | 8 | an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | a diesel engine is an oil burner |
plural | 8 | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | - |
hurdle | 10 | the act of jumping over an obstacle | - |
impure | 10 | having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws | - |
insure | 6 | be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | - |
murmur | 10 | an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves | - |
urinal | 6 | a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate | - |
tenure | 6 | the term during which some position is held | - |
curled | 9 | (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | - |
curing | 9 | the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | - |
durian | 7 | tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | - |
urging | 8 | insistent solicitation and entreaty | - |
urchin | 11 | poor and often mischievous city child | - |
eureka | 10 | an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire | - |
scurry | 11 | to move about or proceed hurriedly | - |
hourly | 12 | occurring every hour or payable by the hour | hourly chimes |
duress | 7 | compulsory force or threat | confessed under duress |
voyeur | 12 | a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | - |
nursed | 7 | (of an infant) breast-fed | - |
buries | 8 | - | - |
turret | 6 | a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation | - |
concur | 10 | happen simultaneously | - |
burley | 11 | - | - |
luring | 7 | - | - |
flurry | 12 | a rapid active commotion | - |
scurvy | 14 | a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) | - |
allure | 6 | dispose or incline or entice to | - |
savour | 9 | derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | - |
surrey | 9 | a county in southeastern England on the Thames | - |
suture | 6 | a seam used in surgery | - |
durant | 7 | United States historian (1885-1981) | - |
fleury | 12 | - | - |
vapour | 11 | a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance | - |
bursar | 8 | the treasurer at a college or university | - |
valour | 9 | the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | - |
curtsy | 11 | bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | - |
vigour | 10 | active strength of body or mind | - |
furrow | 12 | a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | - |
journo | 13 | - | - |
surety | 9 | a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
tureen | 6 | large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews | - |
usurer | 6 | someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | - |
demure | 9 | affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | - |
purser | 8 | an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
auteur | 6 | a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
surest | 6 | - | - |
velour | 9 | heavy fabric that resembles velvet | - |
jurist | 13 | a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | - |
purist | 8 | someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) | - |
furies | 9 | - | - |
curate | 8 | a person authorized to conduct religious worship | - |
currie | 8 | - | - |
turbot | 8 | a large brownish European flatfish | - |
gurgle | 8 | flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | - |
augury | 10 | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | he hoped it was an augury |
burgle | 9 | commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | - |
hurtle | 9 | make a thrusting forward movement | - |
poseur | 8 | a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | - |
soured | 7 | having turned bad | - |
penury | 11 | a state of extreme poverty or destitution | - |
unfurl | 9 | unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | unfurl a banner |
furore | 9 | a sudden outburst (as of protest) | - |
cursor | 8 | (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | - |
burlap | 10 | coarse jute fabric | - |
purana | 8 | a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances | - |
turbid | 9 | (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | - |
urania | 6 | goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite | - |
slurry | 9 | a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
turgid | 8 | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | - |
unhurt | 9 | free from danger or injury | - |
neuron | 6 | a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses | - |
curdle | 9 | turn into curds | curdled milk |
ardour | 7 | feelings of great warmth and intensity | - |
bulgur | 9 | parched crushed wheat | - |
curler | 8 | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
scours | 8 | diarrhea in livestock | - |
urbane | 8 | showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience | maintained an urbane tone in his letters |
curare | 8 | a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction |
burled | 9 | (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
coburg | 11 | - | - |
kultur | 10 | - | - |
datura | 7 | thorn apple | - |
pourer | 8 | - | - |
unbury | 11 | - | - |
inured | 7 | made tough by habitual exposure | a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured |
curtly | 11 | in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | he told me curtly to get on with it |
curios | 8 | - | - |
purdah | 12 | a state of social isolation | - |
rebury | 11 | bury again | - |
uremia | 8 | accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | - |
kurgan | 11 | - | - |
furred | 10 | covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | furred animals |
bourse | 8 | the stock exchange in Paris | - |
pleura | 8 | the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest | - |
rigour | 7 | the quality of being valid and rigorous | - |
tsuris | 6 | (Yiddish) aggravating trouble | the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to |
unpure | 8 | - | - |
uncurl | 8 | move out of a curled position | He uncurled himself |
langur | 7 | slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
immure | 10 | lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | - |
hurler | 9 | (baseball) the person who does the pitching | - |
femurs | 11 | - | - |
curlew | 11 | large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
arbour | 8 | a framework that supports climbing plants | - |
adjure | 14 | ask for or request earnestly | - |
abjure | 15 | formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | She abjured her beliefs |
bursty | 11 | - | - |
burkha | 15 | - | - |
burfis | 11 | - | - |
cauris | 8 | - | - |
deburs | 9 | - | - |
asuras | 6 | - | - |
abitur | 8 | - | - |
ahurus | 9 | - | - |
kurush | 13 | - | - |
kouras | 10 | - | - |
murked | 13 | - | - |
enurns | 6 | - | - |
fleurs | 9 | - | - |
kaurus | 10 | - | - |
kakuro | 14 | - | - |
gurgly | 11 | - | - |
splurt | 8 | - | - |
suhurs | 9 | - | - |
refurb | 11 | - | - |
pudeur | 9 | - | - |
sohurs | 9 | - | - |
slurpy | 11 | - | - |
slurve | 9 | - | - |
plurry | 11 | - | - |
pituri | 8 | - | - |
poured | 9 | - | - |
pourie | 8 | - | - |
pyuria | 11 | presence of white blood cells in the urine; symptom of urinary tract infection | - |
purses | 8 | - | - |
pursew | 11 | - | - |
purvey | 14 | supply with provisions | - |
puture | 8 | - | - |
pursed | 9 | - | - |
purdas | 9 | - | - |
pureed | 9 | - | - |
purees | 8 | - | - |
purfle | 11 | - | - |
purfly | 14 | - | - |
purled | 9 | - | - |
purler | 8 | - | - |
purlin | 8 | - | - |
purpie | 10 | - | - |
purply | 13 | - | - |
purism | 10 | scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language) | linguistic purisms |
puriri | 8 | - | - |
purged | 10 | - | - |
purger | 9 | - | - |
purges | 9 | - | - |
purims | 10 | - | - |
purine | 8 | a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances | - |
puring | 9 | - | - |
purins | 8 | - | - |
purred | 9 | - | - |
rasure | 6 | - | - |
razure | 15 | - | - |
qurush | 18 | 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia | - |
repure | 8 | - | - |
repour | 8 | - | - |
recure | 8 | - | - |
recurs | 8 | - | - |
regurs | 7 | - | - |
retour | 6 | - | - |
returf | 9 | - | - |
reveur | 9 | - | - |
reurge | 7 | - | - |
rurals | 6 | - | - |
rurban | 8 | - | - |
saurel | 6 | a California food fish | - |
scaurs | 8 | - | - |
scaury | 11 | - | - |
sambur | 10 | a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | - |
sapour | 8 | - | - |
santur | 6 | - | - |
scurfs | 11 | - | - |
scurfy | 14 | rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | - |
sieurs | 6 | - | - |
shuras | 9 | - | - |
siddur | 8 | - | - |
skurry | 13 | - | - |
slurbs | 8 | - | - |
slurps | 8 | - | - |
simurg | 9 | - | - |
sourse | 6 | - | - |
sourly | 9 | in a sour manner | he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers |
sourer | 6 | - | - |
smurry | 11 | - | - |
parura | 8 | - | - |
parure | 8 | - | - |
synura | 9 | - | - |
tabour | 8 | a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | - |
surats | 6 | - | - |
surbed | 9 | - | - |
surbet | 8 | - | - |
surfed | 10 | - | - |
surahs | 9 | - | - |
surfie | 9 | - | - |
surged | 8 | - | - |
surger | 7 | - | - |
surges | 7 | - | - |
surimi | 8 | - | - |
suring | 7 | - | - |
surras | 6 | - | - |
surtax | 13 | an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | - |
tenour | 6 | - | - |
tambur | 10 | - | - |
tauric | 8 | - | - |
spurry | 11 | - | - |
spurts | 8 | - | - |
spurns | 8 | - | - |
spurne | 8 | - | - |
spurge | 9 | any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
stours | 6 | - | - |
stoury | 9 | - | - |
stoure | 6 | - | - |
sturts | 6 | - | - |
tussur | 6 | oriental moth that produces brownish silk | - |
tzuris | 15 | - | - |
uhurus | 9 | - | - |
turfed | 10 | - | - |
turfen | 9 | - | - |
turgor | 7 | (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane | - |
turion | 6 | - | - |
turkis | 10 | - | - |
turbos | 8 | - | - |
turaco | 8 | large brightly crested bird of Africa | - |
turbit | 8 | - | - |
turmes | 8 | - | - |
turnon | 6 | - | - |
turnup | 8 | the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | - |
turves | 9 | - | - |
upcurl | 10 | - | - |
upfurl | 11 | - | - |
unturf | 9 | - | - |
unturn | 6 | - | - |
uncurb | 10 | - | - |
velure | 9 | - | - |
upturn | 8 | an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
uphurl | 11 | - | - |
ursids | 7 | - | - |
usured | 7 | - | - |
ursine | 6 | of or relating to or similar to bears | - |
ursons | 6 | - | - |
urtext | 13 | - | - |
urtica | 8 | a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax | - |
urubus | 8 | - | - |
uruses | 6 | - | - |
usures | 6 | - | - |
usurps | 8 | - | - |
urping | 9 | - | - |
urachi | 11 | - | - |
urates | 6 | - | - |
uratic | 8 | - | - |
urbias | 8 | - | - |
urease | 6 | an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria | - |
uredia | 7 | - | - |
uredos | 7 | - | - |
urases | 6 | - | - |
uraris | 6 | - | - |
uracil | 8 | a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine | - |
uraeus | 6 | - | - |
uralis | 6 | - | - |
uranic | 8 | - | - |
uranin | 6 | - | - |
uranyl | 9 | the bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids | - |
urares | 6 | - | - |
ureide | 7 | - | - |
uremic | 10 | of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | - |
urined | 7 | - | - |
urines | 6 | - | - |
urites | 6 | - | - |
urmans | 8 | - | - |
urnful | 9 | - | - |
urning | 7 | - | - |
uropod | 9 | - | - |
uroses | 6 | - | - |
urials | 6 | - | - |
urenas | 6 | - | - |
ureses | 6 | - | - |
uresis | 6 | - | - |
ureter | 6 | either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder | - |
uretic | 8 | - | - |
urgers | 7 | - | - |
urosis | 6 | - | - |
whaurs | 12 | - | - |
waured | 10 | - | - |
waurst | 9 | - | - |
wurley | 12 | - | - |
wurlie | 9 | - | - |
wursts | 9 | - | - |
wurzel | 18 | - | - |
yaourt | 9 | - | - |
thurls | 9 | - | - |
tourie | 6 | - | - |
tourer | 6 | large open car seating four with folding top | - |
toured | 7 | - | - |
zonure | 15 | - | - |
yourts | 9 | - | - |
yurtas | 9 | - | - |
inurns | 6 | - | - |
inures | 6 | - | - |
inturn | 6 | - | - |
inpour | 8 | an inflow | an inpouring of spiritual comfort |
kauris | 10 | - | - |
juries | 13 | - | - |
jurors | 13 | - | - |
juried | 14 | - | - |
jurels | 13 | - | - |
jurant | 13 | - | - |
jurats | 13 | - | - |
kouroi | 10 | - | - |
kouros | 10 | - | - |
knurls | 10 | - | - |
knurly | 13 | - | - |
knurrs | 10 | - | - |
kronur | 10 | - | - |
kunkur | 14 | - | - |
kurres | 10 | - | - |
kurtas | 10 | - | - |
kurvey | 16 | - | - |
khurta | 13 | - | - |
knaurs | 10 | - | - |
laurae | 6 | - | - |
lauras | 6 | - | - |
lauric | 8 | - | - |
lauryl | 9 | - | - |
lemurs | 8 | - | - |
ligure | 7 | - | - |
maduro | 9 | - | - |
loures | 6 | - | - |
lourie | 6 | - | - |
loured | 7 | - | - |
lurdan | 7 | - | - |
lurden | 7 | - | - |
lurers | 6 | - | - |
lurgis | 7 | - | - |
lurked | 11 | - | - |
lurker | 10 | someone waiting in concealment | - |
lurves | 9 | - | - |
mauris | 8 | - | - |
mohurs | 11 | - | - |
miurus | 8 | - | - |
muggur | 10 | - | - |
murree | 8 | - | - |
murren | 8 | - | - |
murres | 8 | - | - |
murrey | 11 | - | - |
murrha | 11 | - | - |
murrin | 8 | - | - |
murris | 8 | - | - |
murtis | 8 | - | - |
murvas | 11 | - | - |
murker | 12 | - | - |
murkly | 15 | - | - |
murlan | 8 | - | - |
murled | 9 | - | - |
murlin | 8 | - | - |
murram | 10 | - | - |
muring | 9 | - | - |
murine | 8 | a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae | - |
murage | 9 | - | - |
murals | 8 | - | - |
murein | 8 | - | - |
murena | 8 | - | - |
murids | 9 | - | - |
murras | 8 | - | - |
mourns | 8 | - | - |
natura | 6 | - | - |
objure | 15 | - | - |
occurs | 10 | - | - |
obdure | 9 | - | - |
nursle | 6 | - | - |
nurses | 6 | - | - |
nurser | 6 | a person who treats something carefully | a great nurser of pennies |
nurdle | 7 | - | - |
nurhag | 10 | - | - |
nurled | 7 | - | - |
odours | 7 | - | - |
notour | 6 | - | - |
ourali | 6 | - | - |
ourang | 7 | - | - |
ourari | 6 | - | - |
ourebi | 8 | - | - |
ourier | 6 | - | - |
ordure | 7 | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | - |
houris | 9 | - | - |
incurs | 8 | - | - |
hurden | 10 | - | - |
hurled | 10 | - | - |
hurras | 9 | - | - |
hursts | 9 | - | - |
hurter | 9 | - | - |
demurs | 9 | - | - |
daured | 8 | - | - |
decury | 12 | - | - |
deburr | 9 | - | - |
diseur | 7 | - | - |
diuron | 7 | - | - |
dolour | 7 | (poetry) painful grief | - |
dhurna | 10 | - | - |
dhurra | 10 | - | - |
durion | 7 | tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind | - |
durned | 8 | - | - |
durocs | 9 | - | - |
duroys | 10 | - | - |
durras | 7 | - | - |
durrie | 7 | - | - |
durgan | 8 | - | - |
durgah | 11 | - | - |
durals | 7 | - | - |
durbar | 9 | the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
durdum | 10 | - | - |
durums | 9 | - | - |
durzis | 16 | - | - |
dourah | 10 | sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | - |
douras | 7 | - | - |
dourer | 7 | - | - |
dourly | 10 | in a sullen manner | he sat in his chair dourly |
enduro | 7 | - | - |
emures | 8 | - | - |
emured | 9 | - | - |