6-letter words containing a, u, i
- maulvi — (in India) an expert in Islamic law: used especially as a term of respectful address among Muslims.
- miaous — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- mibuna — a Japanese leafy salad vegetable
- mizuna — a variety of rape having thin, wispy leaves used in salads.
- mumbai — a state in W central India. 118,800 sq. mi. (307,690 sq. km). Capital: Mumbai.
- murcia — a city in SE Spain.
- musial — Stanley Frank ("Stan the Man") 1920–2013, U.S. baseball player.
- 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.
- ourali — a plant from which curare comes
- ourari — curare.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- paul i — died a.d. 767, pope 757–767.
- paulin — a tarpaulin
- pilula — pill
- pruina — a woolly white covering on some lichens
- puglia — Italian name of Apulia.
- pujari — a Hindu priest
- punani — the vagina
- pyuria — the presence of pus in the urine.
- quaich — a Scottish drinking cup of the 17th and 18th centuries having a shallow bowl with two or three flat handles.
- quaigh — A traditional, shallow, two-handled Scottish cup symbolising friendship.
- quails — Plural form of quail.
- quaint — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualia — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
- 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)
- quashi — an unsophisticated or gullible male Black peasant
- quasi- — Quasi- is used to form adjectives and nouns that describe something as being in many ways like something else, without actually being that thing.
- quidam — an unspecified or inconsequential person
- 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.
- radium — Chemistry. a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays. Symbol: Ra; atomic weight: 226; atomic number: 88.
- radius — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- raipur — a city in SE Madhya Pradesh, in E central India.
- raucid — raucous
- ritual — an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
- rubbia — Carlo [jahr-loh;; Italian kahr-law] /ˈdʒɑr loʊ;; Italian ˈkɑr lɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, Italian physicist: Nobel prize 1984.
- rumaki — a dish of chicken liver and sliced water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
- rupiah — an aluminum coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Indonesia, equal to 100 sen. Abbreviation: Rp.
- russia — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
- salugi — a gamelike prank in which a youth grabs something belonging to another and throws it to a third, preventing the owner from retrieving it as it is tossed back and forth.