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Only five words hold S second and U third, and three of them share a single Latin root.
All three descend from Latin usus, meaning use. Usury is lending at excessive interest, to usurp is to seize what is not yours, and USURE is an archaic verb for practising usury.
It is the only entry here in everyday use, and it comes from the same root as the other three without any of their menace.
So most of this page traces back to one Latin word. That is unusual even for a group this small, where entries normally arrive from unrelated directions.
A tsuba is the guard on a Japanese sword, the disc between blade and grip. Collectors treat them as objects in their own right, many finely worked in iron and gold.
It is also the only entry that does not open with U. T takes one of the five and U takes four.
R fills the fourth box in three of the five, which is the USUR stem showing through. Five letters appear in the last box.
Very nearly. Nothing else here appears in ordinary writing, so a setter using this pattern would almost certainly want it.
Both come from Latin roots about use and possession, but they split early. Usury is about money and usurp about power.
To lend money at interest, an archaic verb now replaced entirely by the noun usury.
Usually iron or a copper alloy, often decorated with gold and silver inlay. Museums collect them as small sculptures.
Zero of the five place the same letter twice in a row. Repeats are simply absent here.