8-letter words containing a, s, u
- musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
- mustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mustangs — Plural form of mustang.
- mustards — Plural form of mustard.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- mutagens — Plural form of mutagen.
- mutators — Plural form of mutator.
- nacreous — of or relating to nacre.
- nagurski — Bronislaw [bron-uh-slof] /ˈbrɒn əˌslɒf/ (Show IPA), ("Bronko") 1908–1990, U.S. football player, born in Canada.
- narquois — mocking, malicious, or snide
- naturals — Plural form of natural.
- naturism — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- naturist — a person who appreciates the beauty and benefits of nature.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nauseant — producing nausea.
- nauseate — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- nauseous — affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
- nausicaä — a daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, who assisted the shipwrecked Odysseus after discovering him on a beach
- nautches — Plural form of nautch.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- neuromas — Plural form of neuroma.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrals — Plural form of neutral.
- nicklaus — Jack (William) born 1940, U.S. golfer.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nonsugar — a substance that is not a sugar
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- nuclease — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- nunataks — Plural form of nunatak.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nuristan — a mountainous region in NE Afghanistan. 5000 sq. mi. (12,950 sq. km).
- nut case — a deranged person; lunatic.
- nut dash — a dash equal in length to the width of an en quad; en dash.
- nutgalls — Plural form of nutgall.
- nutgrass — A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.
- nutmeats — the kernel of a nut, usually edible.
- occlusal — the act or state of occluding or the state of being occluded.
- octavius — a male given name.
- oldsquaw — A marine diving duck that breeds in Arctic Eurasia and North America, the male having very long tail feathers and mainly white plumage in winter.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- oragious — stormy or tempestuous
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- osmundas — Plural form of osmunda.
- osnaburg — a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.