9-letter words containing a, n, u, s
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- avifaunas — Plural form of avifauna.
- awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
- azureness — The quality of being azure in colour.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- bandobust — (in India and Pakistan) an arrangement
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- bantustan — (formerly, in South Africa) an area reserved for occupation by a Black African people, with limited self-government; abolished in 1993
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- bluejeans — jeans made of blue denim
- bosanquet — Bernard, 1848–1923, English philosopher and writer.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bullsnake — an American burrowing snake
- bundesrat — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the council of state ministers with certain legislative and administrative powers, representing the state governments at federal level
- bundestag — (in Germany and formerly in West Germany) the legislative assembly, which is elected by universal adult suffrage and elects the federal chancellor
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- calcaneus — the largest tarsal bone, forming the heel in man
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- cankerous — having cankers
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- caruncles — Plural form of caruncle.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
- caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
- cauldrons — Plural form of cauldron.
- cauquenes — a city in central Chile.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- clangours — Plural form of clangour.
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.