9-letter words containing e, u, n, i
- fussiness — excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- fustiness — The quality of being fusty.
- futtering — Present participle of futter.
- fuzziness — of the nature of or resembling fuzz: a soft, fuzzy material.
- gallienus — (Publius Licinius Egnatius) died a.d. 268, emperor of Rome 253–268 (son of Valerian).
- gallinule — any aquatic bird of the family Rallidae, having elongated, webless toes.
- garniture — something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.
- gaudiness — brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- gauziness — The quality of being gauzy.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- genuinely — possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique.
- geraniums — Plural form of geranium.
- germanium — a scarce, metallic, grayish-white element, normally tetravalent, used chiefly in transistors. Symbol: Ge; atomic weight: 72.59; atomic number: 32; specific gravity: 5.36 at 20°C.
- gerundial — (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen., dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.”. See also gerundive (def 1).
- gerundive — (in Latin) a verbal adjective similar to the gerund in form and noting the obligation, necessity, or worthiness of the action to be done, as legendus in Liber legendus est, “The book is worth reading.”. See also gerund (def 1).
- gesturing — Present participle of gesture.
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gingerous — (of hair) reddish
- glulisine — A rapid-acting insulin analogue.
- glutamine — a crystalline amino acid, HOOCCH(NH 2)CH 2 CH 2 CONH 2 , related to glutamic acid. Symbol: Q. Abbreviation: Gln;
- granulite — a metamorphic rock composed of granular minerals of uniform size, as quartz, feldspar, or pyroxene, and showing a definite banding.
- gruelling — exhausting; very tiring; arduously severe: the grueling Boston marathon.
- guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
- guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
- guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guideline — any guide or indication of a future course of action: guidelines on the government's future policy.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- guillemin — Roger (Charles Louis) [roj-er chahrlz loo-ee;; French raw-zhey sharl lwee] /ˈrɒdʒ ər tʃɑrlz ˈlu i;; French rɔˈʒeɪ ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), born 1924, U.S. physiologist, born in France: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1977.
- guineapig — Alternative spelling of guinea pig.
- guinevere — Arthurian Romance. wife of King Arthur and mistress of Lancelot.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
- gun crime — offences involving firearms
- gurneyite — a supporter of Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), an English Quaker, who, on a preaching tour of America, advocated Christian evangelical principles.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- guttering — a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hirundine — of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.