10-letter words containing n, u
- auguration — The practice of augury.
- augustness — inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
- aunt sally — a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects
- auntie man — an effeminate or homosexual male
- aurangabad — city in central Maharashtra, W India: pop. 573,000
- aureomycin — chlortetracycline
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- austenitic — consisting mainly of austenite.
- australian — Australian means belonging or relating to Australia, or to its people or culture.
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autogenous — originating within the body
- autognosis — Self-knowledge; the understanding of one's character and peculiarities.
- autoimmune — Autoimmune describes medical conditions in which normal cells are attacked by the body's immune system.
- autolysins — Plural form of autolysin.
- automaking — The manufacture of automobiles.
- automating — Present participle of automate.
- automation — the use of methods for controlling industrial processes automatically, esp by electronically controlled systems, often reducing manpower
- automatons — Plural form of automaton.
- autonoesis — The neurocognitive ability to experience time as a series of subjective episodes.
- autonoetic — Of or relating to autonoesis.
- autonomics — the study of self-regulating systems for process control
- autonomism — the belief in or a movement toward autonomy.
- autonomist — a person desiring or advocating autonomy
- autonomous — An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else.
- autonymous — (of a word or words) appearing in its own form or directly quoted
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autosexing — the breeding of birds to reveal specific sexual characteristics
- autotoxins — Plural form of autotoxin.
- autowinder — a battery-operated device for advancing the film in a camera automatically after each exposure
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- avanturine — Alternative form of aventurine.
- avenaceous — belonging to or of the nature of oats or oat grasses
- aventurine — a dark-coloured glass, usually green or brown, spangled with fine particles of gold, copper, or some other metal
- avenuelike — Resembling or characteristic of an avenue.
- avirulence — The state of being avirulent.
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- avunculate — the custom in some societies of assigning rights and duties to a maternal uncle concerning his sister's son
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- azuki bean — adzuki bean.
- baby bonus — family allowance
- backburned — Simple past tense and past participle of backburn.
- backburner — a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
- background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
- balaustine — of or relating to the pomegranate.
- balbutient — stuttering, stammering
- balibuntal — closely woven fine straw, used for making hats in the Philippines
- bananaquit — A small songbird with a curved bill, typically with a white stripe over the eye, a sooty gray back, and yellow underparts. It is common in the West Indies and Central and South America.
- banja luka — a city in NW Bosnia-Herzegovina, on the Vrbas River: scene of battles between the Austrians and Turks in 1527, 1688, and 1737; besieged by Serb forces (1992–95). Pop: 182 000 (2005 est)