9-letter words containing e, n, t, r, u
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- menstruum — a solvent.
- mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
- montreuil — a suburb of Paris, in N France.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- muttering — to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
- naturedly — (in combinations) With a certain nature, in a certain manner.
- naughtier — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- negritude — the historical, cultural, and social heritage considered common to black people collectively.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- neuration — venation, as of an insect's wings.
- neurility — the ability belonging to nerves to conduct electrical impulses
- neuristor — a microelectronic fiberlike device used in information processing.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neurotomy — the cutting of a nerve, as to relieve neuralgia.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutering — Present participle of neuter.
- neutrally — not taking part or giving assistance in a dispute or war between others: a neutral nation during World War II.
- neutretto — the neutrino associated with the muon
- neutrinos — Plural form of neutrino.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- nigritude — complete darkness or blackness.
- no-return — nonreturnable (def 2).
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- nonhunter — a person or thing that does not hunt
- nonmature — not mature; immature
- nonreturn — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
- nonurgent — Not urgent.
- nonvirtue — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nouriture — Obsolete form of nurture.
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- numerated — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- numerator — Arithmetic. the term of a fraction, usually above the line, that indicates the number of equal parts that are to be added together; the dividend placed over a divisor: The numerator of the fraction 2/3 is 2. Compare denominator (def 1).
- nurturers — to feed and protect: to nurture one's offspring.