4-Letter Words Containing: RU

• an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

• a high tight collar

• common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season

• (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit

• play a trump

• a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

• an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

• become wrinkled or drawn together

• a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

• a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers

• a deep and vivid red color

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned

• (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.

• To perform this dance.

• slice of sweet raised bread baked again until it is brown and hard and crisp

• the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

• physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813)

• a sudden forceful flow

• grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• a sudden burst of activity

• (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line

• not accepting reservations

• done under pressure

• move hurridly

• attack suddenly

• urge to an unnatural speed

• act at high speed

• run with the ball, in football

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• cause to occur rapidly

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam