7-letter words containing n, i, u
- mindful — attentive, aware, or careful (usually followed by of): mindful of one's responsibilities.
- minibus — a small bus, seating about 15 passengers and typically transporting people short distances.
- minigun — a U.S. aircraft machine gun consisting of a rotating cluster of six barrels using 7.62mm ammunition and capable of variable rates of fire of up to 6000 rounds per minute.
- minimum — the least quantity or amount possible, assignable, allowable, or the like.
- minimus — a creature or being that is the smallest or least significant.
- minisub — a small submarine, holding only one or a few persons, used in naval operations, underwater exploration, or conducting underwater experiments.
- minogue — Kylie (ˈkaɪlɪ). born 1968, Australian singer and actress: records include "I Should Be So Lucky" (1988), Kylie Minogue (1994), "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (2001), X (2007), and Kiss Me Once (2014)
- minuend — a number from which another is subtracted.
- minuets — Plural form of minuet.
- minuses — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- minuted — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minuter — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minutes — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- minutia — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- misenum — a naval base in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples, constructed by Agrippa in 31 bc
- misenus — a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.
- mistune — to fail to tune correctly
- misturn — (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- moineau — Lb fortifications A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
- moulins — a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- mountie — Alternative form of Mountie.
- mousing — a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
- mucigen — (physiology) A substance formed in mucous epithelial cells that gives rise to mucin.
- muck in — If someone mucks in, they join in with an activity or help other people with a job and do not consider themselves to be too important to do it.
- mucking — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- mudding — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- muezzin — the crier who, from a minaret or other high part of a mosque, at stated hours five times daily, intones aloud the call summoning Muslims to prayer.
- muffing — a thick, tubular case for the hands, covered with fur or other material, used by women and girls for warmth and as a handbag.
- muffins — an individual cup-shaped quick bread made with wheat flour, cornmeal, or the like, and baked in a pan (muffin pan) containing a series of cuplike forms.
- mugging — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
- muggins — a convention in the card game of cribbage in which a player scores points overlooked by an opponent.
- mugient — (obsolete) lowing; bellowing.
- mullein — any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
- mulling — to study or ruminate; ponder.
- mullion — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- mumming — to say “mum”; call for silence.
- mumping — to cheat.
- munafiq — (Islam) A hypocrite, a person who professes to believe in Islam but actually does not.
- munchie — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- mundify — to cleanse; deterge: to mundify a wound.
- munging — something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- munites — to fortify.
- munnion — a mullion or muntin.
- munshis — Plural form of munshi.
- muntins — Plural form of muntin.
- muntrie — a SE Australian myrtaceous shrub, Kunzea pomifera, that has green-red edible berries
- muonium — an electron and a positively charged muon bound together by electrical attraction in the same manner as the electron and proton in a hydrogen atom.
- mureins — Plural form of murein.
- murking — Present participle of murk.
- murlain — a round, narrow-mouthed basket