10-letter words containing n, u
- ad initium — at or to the beginning
- ad nauseam — If someone does something ad nauseam, they do it repeatedly and over a long period of time so that it becomes annoying or boring.
- adamantium — A fictional metal that is indestructible or nearly so.
- adenovirus — any of a group of viruses that can cause upper respiratory diseases in man
- adequation — Equivalence.
- adjourning — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- adjudgment — The action of imposing judgment.
- adjunction — (in phrase-structure grammar) the relationship between a branch of a tree representing a sentence to other branches to its left or right that descend from the same node immediately above
- adjunctive — that constitutes an adjunct
- adjuration — a solemn charge or command
- adjustment — An adjustment is a small change that is made to something such as a machine or a way of doing something.
- adjuvanted — (medicine) Modified by addition of an adjuvant.
- admiraunce — admirance
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adventured — Simple past tense and past participle of adventure.
- adventurer — An adventurer is a person who enjoys going to new, unusual, and exciting places.
- adventures — Plural form of adventure.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- aeronautic — relating to air companies
- aeruginous — bluish-green, like copper rust
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- afro-cuban — of or relating to a type of jazz influenced by Cuban variants of African rhythms
- agapanthus — a liliaceous plant, Agapanthus africanus, of southern Africa, having rounded clusters of blue or white funnel-shaped flowers
- agent noun — a noun denoting the doer of an action, as editor or jogger.
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agony aunt — An agony aunt is a person who writes a column in a newspaper or magazine in which they reply to readers who have written to them for advice on their personal problems.
- air hunger — deep, rapid, and labored breathing caused by an increased respiratory drive due to abnormally low blood oxygen levels, as in severe heart failure or asthma.
- aktyubinsk — city in W Kazakhstan: pop. 248,000
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allurement — fascination; charm.
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.
- almucantar — a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizontal plane
- aluminates — Plural form of aluminate.
- aluminized — Simple past tense and past participle of aluminize.
- amanuenses — a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
- amanuensis — a person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts