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7-letter words ending in U
There are 42 7-letter words ending in U in the standard word-game list. The most common are chateau, plateau, caribou, seppuku, nouveau, jujitsu.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| chateau | an impressive country house (or castle) in France | 12 |
| plateau | a relatively flat highland | 9 |
| caribou | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called ‘reindeer’ in Eurasia and ‘caribou’ in North America | 11 |
| seppuku | ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society | 15 |
| nouveau | New, fashionable. | 10 |
| jujitsu | a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are… | 21 |
| tableau | a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) | 9 |
| shiatsu | treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | 10 |
| babassu | tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable… | 11 |
| bandeau | an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | 10 |
| bunraku | A traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre. | 13 |
| catechu | extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails;… | 14 |
| chapeau | headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | 14 |
| couteau | A knife; a dagger. | 9 |
| fabliau | A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th… | 12 |
| inconnu | A large salmonid fish, Stenodus leucichthys, with a large mouth with a protruding lower jaw and a high and… | 9 |
| jambeau | armor plate that protects legs below the knee | 18 |
| jujutsu | a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are… | 21 |
| manitou | A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians. | 9 |
| manteau | A cloak or gown, especially of a kind popular with women in the 17th and 18th centuries. | 9 |
| marabou | large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | 11 |
| morceau | a short literary or musical composition | 11 |
| nylghau | large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns | 14 |
| parvenu | characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for… | 12 |
| purlieu | an outer adjacent area of any place | 9 |
| rondeau | a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | 8 |
| rouleau | a roll of ribbon | 7 |
| sapajou | Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails. | 16 |
| submenu | a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu | 11 |
| tamandu | small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and… | 10 |
| tamarau | small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines | 9 |
| tinamou | heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite… | 9 |
| tonneau | The rear body or compartment of some types of motor vehicle, especially one containing seats for passengers. | 7 |
| trumeau | The pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of a doorway or window opening, especially in… | 9 |
| turacou | large brightly crested bird of Africa | 9 |