5-letter words containing i, n, u
- kunai — A Japanese tool and weapon, possibly derived from the masonry trowel, used as a weapon by ninja (or samurai).
- linum — any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- linus — Classical Mythology. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
- linux — (operating system) ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, PowerMAC - OSF, and 68k ports all support shells, X and networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the GNU General Public License. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees Posix compliance. Linux is particularly popular for Internet Service Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux.
- linyu — Pinyin. former name of Shanhaiguan.
- luing — one of a breed of beef cattle developed on Luing Island off Scotland by interbreeding Shorthorn bulls and purebred West Highland cows.
- lungi — a cloth used as a turban, scarf, sarong, etc., in India, Pakistan, and Burma.
- luni- — moon
- lupin — The common name for members of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.
- minum — (printing, obsolete) A small kind of printing type; minion.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- mucin — any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
- mumin — one of the devout.
- munia — Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
- munin — one of the two ravens of Odin that brought him news from the whole world.
- nairu — the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment: the lowest level of unemployment an economy can handle without causing inflation.
- nguni — a member of a group of culturally and linguistically related peoples of southern and eastern Africa, including the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, and Swazi.
- nidus — a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
- nikau — Rhopalostylis sapida, a palm tree of New Zealand.
- ninus — the legendary husband of Semiramis and founder of Nineveh.
- nisus — an effort or striving toward a particular goal or attainment; impulse.
- nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- nudi- — naked or bare
- nudie — a film, performance, or magazine featuring nude performers or photographs.
- nugie — noogie.
- numic — a branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages including Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Comanche, Southern Paiute, Ute, and others.
- nummi — Plural form of nummus.
- nurmi — Paavo Johannes [pah-vaw yaw-hahn-nes] /ˈpɑ vɔ ˈyɔ hɑn nɛs/ (Show IPA), 1897–1973, Finnish athlete.
- oaniu — Onitsha Ado National Improvement Union
- onium — (chemistry) any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any element of the nitrogen, chalcogen or halogen families.
- pinup — a large photograph, as of a sexually attractive person, suitable for pinning on a wall.
- pugin — Augustus Charles, 1762–1832, French architectural draftsman and archaeologist in England.
- punic — of or relating to the ancient Carthaginians.
- punji — (in SE Asia) a sharpened bamboo stake, sometimes tipped with poison, hidden at the bottom of a camouflaged hole that forms a trap
- pupin — Michael Idvorsky [id-vawr-skee] /ɪdˈvɔr ski/ (Show IPA), 1858–1935, U.S. inventor, physicist, and author, born in Hungary.
- putin — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quina — the cinchona tree
- quine — Willard van Orman [awr-muh n] /ˈɔr mən/ (Show IPA), 1908–2000, U.S. philosopher and logician.
- quinn — Anthony. 1915–2001, US film actor, born in Mexico: noted esp for his performances in La Strada (1954) and Zorba the Greek (1964)
- quins — Plural form of quin.
- quint — a quintuplet.
- quirn — A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which is turned by hand.
- quoin — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- ruing — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- ruins — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rundi — a member of a people constituting virtually the entire population of Burundi.
- runic — consisting of or set down in runes: runic inscriptions.
- rutin — a bright yellow or greenish-yellow substance, C 2 7 H 3 0 O 1 6 , obtained chiefly from buckwheat, and used in the treatment of capillary fragility.
- sinus — a curve; bend.
- suing — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.