6-letter words containing n, u, a
- punani — the vagina
- punjab — a former province in NW British India: now divided between India and Pakistan.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- puntat — a walking catfish, Clarias fuscus, introduced in Hawaiian waters.
- purana — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- putnam — Herbert, 1861–1955, U.S. librarian: headed Library of Congress 1899–1939.
- quaint — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quamin — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quanah — (Quanah Parker) 1845?–1911, Comanche leader.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- quanta — plural of quantum.
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- quantz — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1697–1773, German flutist and composer: teacher of Frederick the Great.
- queans — Plural form of quean.
- quinoa — a tall crop plant, Chenopodium quinoa, of the amaranth family, cultivated mainly in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile for its small, ivory-colored seed, which is used as a food staple.
- quinta — an inn, especially one in the countryside.
- quinua — quinoa.
- qumran — Khirbet Qumran.
- qur'an — Koran.
- ranula — a cystic tumor formed beneath the tongue, caused by obstruction of the sublingual or submaxillary gland or of a mucous gland.
- raunch — smuttiness or vulgarity; crudeness; obscenity: porno magazines and other purveyors of raunch.
- ruanda — a member of a people living in Rwanda and the E Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- runway — a way along which something runs.
- rurban — bringing together the urban and the rural
- samsun — a city in N Turkey, in Asia.
- sannup — a married American Indian man, especially a younger one; husband.
- santur — a Persian or Arabian dulcimer
- sanusi — a member of an Islamic brotherhood established among the anticolonial Bedouins of North Africa.
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- sauncy — sonsy.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- suakin — a port in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea: formerly the chief port of the African Red Sea; now obstructed by a coral reef. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- subman — a primitive form of human
- sultan — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sundae — ice cream served with syrup poured over it, and often other toppings, as whipped cream, chopped nuts, or fruit.
- sunday — William Ashley [ash-lee] /ˈæʃ li/ (Show IPA), ("Billy Sunday") 1862–1935, U.S. evangelist.
- sunhat — a hat that shades the face and neck from the sun
- sunnah — the traditional portion of Muslim law, based on the words and acts of Muhammad, and preserved in the traditional literature.
- sunray — a ray of sunlight; sunbeam.
- suntan — a browning or a brown color of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or a sunlamp; tan.
- susian — a native or inhabitant of Susa or Susiana.
- synura — any of several species of green alga
- taguan — a large nocturnal flying squirrel, Petaurista petaurista, of high forests in the East Indies that uses its long tail as a rudder
- tamanu — the tree, Calophyllum inophyllum, native to SE Asia and found in the South Pacific, the oil of which is extracted from its fruit and used to treat skin conditions, cuts, burns, etc
- tanbur — tambura.
- tangun — a small and sturdy pony native to Tibet and Bhutan
- tanguy — Yves [eev] /iv/ (Show IPA), 1900–55, French painter, in the U.S. after 1939.
- tanuki — a Japanese raccoon dog, formerly believed in Japan to be a mischievous animal capable of shape-shifting
- tatung — Datong.
- tauten — make taut