6-letter words containing a, n, i, u
- luxian — former name of Luzhou.
- madiun — a city on E central Java, in Indonesia.
- manitu — (among the Algonquian Indians) a supernatural being that controls nature; a spirit, deity, or object that possesses supernatural power.
- maukin — (Scotland) Alternative form of malkin.
- mibuna — a Japanese leafy salad vegetable
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- mutina — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna: ruled by the Este family (18th–19th century); university (1678). Pop: 175 502 (2001)
- naguib — Mohammed, 1901–1984, Egyptian general and political leader: premier 1952–54; president 1953–54.
- nautic — Alternative form of nautical.
- niihau — an island in NW Hawaii, W of Kauai. 72 sq. mi. (186 sq. km).
- niuean — of or relating to the S Pacific island of Niue or its inhabitants
- nubain — an opiate drug, nalbuphine hydrochloride, used as a painkiller and, illegally, by bodybuilders and others to increase their pain threshold and as a recreational drug, being a cheap alternative to heroin
- nubian — a member of any of the various peoples inhabiting Nubia.
- numina — plural of numen.
- nutria — the coypu.
- paulin — a tarpaulin
- pruina — a woolly white covering on some lichens
- punani — the vagina
- quaint — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quamin — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quinoa — a tall crop plant, Chenopodium quinoa, of the amaranth family, cultivated mainly in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile for its small, ivory-colored seed, which is used as a food staple.
- quinta — an inn, especially one in the countryside.
- quinua — quinoa.
- sanusi — a member of an Islamic brotherhood established among the anticolonial Bedouins of North Africa.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- suakin — a port in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea: formerly the chief port of the African Red Sea; now obstructed by a coral reef. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- susian — a native or inhabitant of Susa or Susiana.
- tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
- tipuna — an ancestor
- tui-na — a form of massage originating in China, used esp to treat muscle or joint pain
- tuinal — a combination of equal parts of secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium, used as a quick and relatively long-acting sedative or hypnotic
- tunica — a tunic.
- ubangi — French Oubangi. a river in W central Africa, forming part of the boundary between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, flowing W and S into the Congo (Zaire) River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- ugrian — denoting or pertaining to an ethnological group including the Magyars and related peoples of western Siberia.
- ujjain — a city in W Madhya Pradesh, in W central India: one of the seven holy cities of India.
- ulpian — (Domitius Ulpianus) died a.d. 288? Roman jurist.
- unakin — not related or comparable
- unbias — to free from prejudice or bias
- unciae — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
- uncial — designating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule writing having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th century a.d.
- unfair — not fair; not conforming to approved standards, as of justice, honesty, or ethics: an unfair law; an unfair wage policy.
- ungain — inconvenient; unpleasant; unskilled
- unhair — to remove the hair from, as a hide in preparation for tanning.
- uniate — a member of an Eastern church that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledges the Roman pope as supreme in matters of faith, but maintains its own liturgy, discipline, and rite.
- unihan — Han character
- unisap — An early system on UNIVAC I or II.
- unital — containing, or belonging or relating to, a unit
- unitas — John Constantine ("Johnny"; "Johnny U") 1933–2002, U.S. football player.
- univac — (processor, company) A brand of computer. There is a historical placard in the United States Census Bureau that has the following, "The Bureau of the Census dedicated the world's first electronic general purpose data processing computer, UNIVAC I, on June 14, 1951. Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation". The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation designed and built Univac. Over the years, rights to the Univac name changed hands several times. Circa 1987, Sperry Univac merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- unlaid — not laid or placed: The table is still unlaid.