7-letter words containing a, n, i, u
- chauvin — a chauvinist
- cluniac — of or relating to a reformed Benedictine order founded at the French town of Cluny in 910
- coquina — a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- daubing — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- dauphin — In former times, the king and queen of France's oldest son was called the dauphin.
- dauting — to caress.
- diurnal — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- dulcian — an organ-stop consisting of pipes made of reeds
- dunciad — a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers.
- durians — Plural form of durian.
- equinia — glanders (disease)
- eucaine — a crystalline optically active substance formerly used as a local anaesthetic. Formula: C15H21NO2
- eugenia — a plant of the clove genus Eugenia
- faneuil — Peter, 1700–43, American merchant: builder of Faneuil Hall.
- faunist — a person who studies fauna, a naturalist
- flutina — an early type of accordion, similar in internal construction to a concertina
- fuegian — of or belonging to Tierra del Fuego or its indigenous Indians.
- funckia — any plant of the genus Hosta, resembling lilies
- funfair — an amusement park.
- fusains — Plural form of fusain.
- fustian — a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
- gainful — profitable; lucrative: gainful employment.
- gauging — to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
- gauguin — (Eugène Henri) Paul [œ-zhen ahn-ree pawl] /œˈʒɛn ɑ̃ˈri pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1848–1903, French painter.
- gauping — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
- gauzing — Present participle of gauze.
- glucina — (obsolete, chemistry) beryllium oxide.
- gournia — a village in NE Crete, near the site of an excavated Minoan town and palace.
- guangxi — autonomous region in S China: 85,097 sq mi (220,400 sq km); pop. 42,530,000; cap. Nanning
- guanine — a purine base, C 5 H 5 N 5 O, that is a fundamental constituent of DNA and RNA, in which it forms base pairs with cytosine. Symbol: G.
- guanyin — Kwan-yin.
- guarani — a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
- guarini — Guarino [gwah-ree-naw] /gwɑˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1624–83, Italian architect.
- guinean — a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
- guineas — a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary.
- guiyang — Also, Kweichow. a province in S China. 67,181 sq. mi. (173,999 sq. km). Capital: Guiyang.
- hafnium — a gray, toxic metallic element with a high melting point (over 2000°C), found in most zirconium minerals. Symbol: Hf; atomic weight: 178.49; atomic number: 72; specific gravity: 12.1.
- hahnium — dubnium.
- hainaut — a medieval county in territory now in SW Belgium and N France.
- hainous — Obsolete spelling of heinous.
- hauling — Present participle of haul.
- hinault — Bernard, born 1954, French cyclist with five victories (1978–79, 1981–82, and 1985) in the Tour de France.
- huainan — a city in central Anhui province, in E China.
- huitain — a French verse form of eight lines or sets of lines of 8 or 10 syllables rhyming ababbcbc or abbaacac
- hunyadi — János [yah-nawsh] /ˈyɑ nɔʃ/ (Show IPA), 1387?–1456, Hungarian soldier and national hero.
- hurrian — a member of an ancient people, sometimes identified with the Horites, who lived in the Middle East during the 2nd and 3rd millenniums b.c. and who established the Mitanni kingdom about 1400 b.c.