6-letter words containing n, u, a
- curran — a currant
- damnum — (legal) harm; detriment.
- danaus — a king of Argos who told his fifty daughters, the Danaides, to kill their bridegrooms on their wedding night
- danube — a river in central and SE Europe, rising in the Black Forest in Germany and flowing to the Black Sea. Length: 2859 km (1776 miles)
- dauncy — donsie.
- dauner — an amble or walk
- daunts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of daunt.
- daunus — father of Euippe, second wife of Diomedes.
- dhurna — (in India) the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until death or until the demand is granted.
- dobuan — Dobu.
- douane — a custom house; customs.
- dualin — an explosive substance consisting of sawdust, nitre, and nitroglycerine
- duenna — (in Spain and Portugal) an older woman serving as escort or chaperon of a young lady.
- dunant — Jean Henri [French zhahn ahn-ree] /French ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1828–1910, Swiss banker and philanthropist: founder of the Red Cross; Nobel Peace Prize 1901.
- dunbar — Paul Laurence, 1872–1906, U.S. poet.
- duncan — died 1040, king of Scotland 1030–40: murdered by Macbeth.
- dundas — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, near Hamilton.
- dunham — Katherine, 1910?–2006, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- dunlap — William, 1766–1839, U.S. dramatist, theatrical producer, and historian.
- durain — the coal forming the dull layers in banded bituminous coal.
- durand — Asher Brown, 1796–1886, U.S. engraver and landscape painter of the Hudson River School.
- durant — Ariel, 1898–1981, U.S. author and historian (wife of Will).
- durban — a seaport in SE Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa.
- durgan — (dialectal) A dwarf.
- durian — the edible fruit of a tree, Durio zibethinus, of the bombax family, of southeastern Asia, having a hard, prickly rind, a highly flavored, pulpy flesh, and an unpleasant odor.
- durkan — (John) Mark. born 1960, Northern Irish politician; leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 2001 to 2010
- durwan — A porter or doorkeeper.
- eluant — Alternative spelling of eluent.
- endura — (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
- equant — (of a crystal or particle) having its different diameters approximately equal, so as to be roughly cubic or spherical in shape.
- eunoia — (rhetoric) Goodwill towards an audience, either perceived or real; the perception that the speaker has the audience's interest at heart.
- eupnea — (medicine) Normal, relaxed breathing; healthy condition of inhalation and exhalation.
- facund — (archaic) eloquent, articulate.
- fanout — (computing, electronics) The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
- fansub — the subtitling of foreign, esp animated, films by fans
- faunae — Plural form of fauna.
- faunal — the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.
- faunas — Plural form of fauna.
- faunus — an ancient Italian woodland deity, later identified with Pan.
- fiaunt — a warrant issued to the Court of Chancery in Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- flaunt — to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
- fujian — a province in SE China, opposite Taiwan. 45,845 sq. mi. (118,739 sq. km). Capital: Fuzhou.
- fulani — Also, Fulah. a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of mixed African and Mediterranean ancestry, scattered through W Africa from Senegal to Cameroon.
- fundae — (rare, slang) Plural form of funda.
- fungal — fungous.
- fungia — Any member of the coral genus Fungia.
- funkia — plantain lily.
- furane — (organic compound) Furan.
- fusain — a fine charcoal used in drawing, made from the wood of the spindle tree.
- gangue — rock or mineral matter of no value occurring with the metallic ore in a vein or deposit.