9-letter words containing n, a, t, u
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- oathbound — Bound by an oath.
- obcuneate — inversely cuneate.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obumbrant — overhanging; projecting over another part.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- oppugnant — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
- ortanique — A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a tangerine, developed in Jamaica in the 1920s.
- outbrazen — to be more brazen or impudent than
- outdating — Present participle of outdate.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- outhandle — to handle or operate in a superior way to: That car outhandles all others in its class.
- outlander — a foreigner; alien.
- outlaunch — to send out
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outmanage — (transitive) To surpass in management; to manage better than.
- outmanned — Simple past tense and past participle of outman.
- outmantle — to be better dressed than
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outranged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrange.
- outranked — Simple past tense and past participle of outrank.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstand.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- paint gun — an air gun that fires paint capsules, as used in paintballing
- paint out — to cover up with or as with a coat of paint
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pant suit — women's shirt and trousers
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- paricutin — a volcano in W central Mexico: formed by an eruption 1943–52. 8200 feet (2500 meters).
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pendulate — to swing in the motion of a pendulum
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.
- plant out — When you plant out young plants, you plant them in the ground in the place where they are to be left to grow.
- planulate — flat
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.