9-letter words containing n, u, l
- stumbling — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- sturluson — Snorri Sturluson.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
- subconsul — an assistant to a consul
- sublation — to deny or contradict; negate.
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- sublunate — almost crescent-shaped
- submental — situated beneath the chin
- subneural — beneath or below a nerve
- subniveal — beneath the snow
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- sudaminal — pertaining to a sudamen or sudamina; comprising sudamina
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulfation — Chemistry. a salt or ester of sulfuric acid.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sulfonium — the positively charged group H 3 S + , its salts, or their substitute products.
- sulkiness — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- sultanate — the office or rule of a sultan.
- sultaness — sultana (defs 2, 3).
- sun block — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sun wheel — Machinery. sun gear.
- sundsvall — a seaport in E Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
- sunnyvale — a city in central California, south of San Francisco.
- superlong — extremely long
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplying — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
- surliness — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- swine flu — a highly contagious form of influenza caused by infection with a filterable virus first isolated from swine.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tantalous — containing trivalent tantalum.
- tarantula — any of several large, hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae, as Aphonopelma chalcodes, of the southwestern U.S., having a painful but not highly venomous bite.
- tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- temulence — drunkenness
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- throngful — crowded or packed with people