urea
/jʊˈɹiːə/US/jʊˈɹiə/
urea noun: a water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
Noun
urea (countable and uncountable, plural ureas)
- A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
- Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track...2026 March 9, Sam Sifton, “The War’s Effect on the Supermarket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2026
- Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).
urea meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Persian
urea in Tamil
- யூரியா, சிறுநீர்க் கழிவுப் பொருள், சிறுநீருப்பு, சிறுநீர் உப்பு, தழையுர உப்பு, சிறு நீருடன் வெளியேறுகிறது
urea in Urdu
- پیشاب کا اہم جز
urea in Telugu
- urea
- యూరియా yūriyā
urea in Persian
- organic compound
- اوره ure
Examples of urea in a sentence
- Insoluble antigens were solubilized (refolded) from denaturating conditions (8 M urea) into buffers free of choatropic reagents.
- Some children may be anuretic – renal function (serum creatinine, urea and electrolytes) should be analysed promptly.
- The incompletely transformed polymers contain both parabanic and urea groups on the samc chain.
Synonyms of urea
Forms of urea
| plural | ureas |
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Origin of urea
From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Words formed from urea
- alkylurea
- alpha-naphthylthiourea
- arylurea
- bisurea
- bromerguride
- bromovalerylurea
- carbamylurea
- carburazepam
- diallylurea
- dicyclohexylurea
- dimethylurea
- diphenylurea
- glibornuride
- glyburide
- glycolylurea
- hydroxyurea
- imidazolidinyl urea
- isourea
- malonylurea
- methylol urea
- nitrosoethylurea
- nitrosourea
- nitrourea
- nonurea
- oligourea
- phenylthiourea
- polyurea
- pseudourea
- selenourea
- sulfonylurea
- sulfourea
- sulphonylurea
- suramin
- tetramethylurea
- thiourea
- triurea
- uraemia
- urea cycle
- urea-formaldehyde
- ureagenesis
- ureal
- urealytic
- ureameter
- ureametry
- urease
- ureic
- ureido-
- uremia
Words that rhyme with urea
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- althea
- Anthea
- Caesarea
- hamartia
- Hosea
- Leah
- logorrhea
- maria
- panacea
- Sandia
- Theia
- trachea
- Zia
- Achaea
- Alethea
- carry the message to Garcia
- chia
- chorea
- diarrhea
- Hygieia
- mens rea
- pharmacopoeia
- pro-mia
- quesadilla
- ratafia
- sangria
- shea
- Shi'a
- tortilla
- Aeaea
- Apamea
- apatheia
- Aramea
- Arimathea
- avania
- cinquedea
- Corea
- deliver the message to Garcia
- dionaea
- dyspnea
- Euboea
- eupatheia
- Euryclea
- Fawzia
- gelateria
- glossopoeia
- gonorrhea
- Hialeah
Questions about urea
- What does urea mean?
- Urea means a water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
- What is urea in Tamil?
- Urea in Tamil is யூரியா, சிறுநீர்க் கழிவுப் பொருள், சிறுநீருப்பு. See Urea meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is urea?
- Urea is a noun.
- How do you pronounce urea?
- Urea is pronounced /jʊˈɹiːə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of urea?
- The plural of urea is ureas.
Words near urea in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: urea (page history and authors); urea (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urea (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); యూరియా (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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