4-letter words containing n, u
- quin — (informal) A quintuplet.
- raun — fish roe or spawn
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- rune — a poem, song, or verse.
- rung — simple past tense and past participle of ring2 .
- runt — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- ryun — James Ronald ("Jim") born 1947, U.S. distance runner; congressman 1996–2007.
- shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- snub — to treat with disdain or contempt, especially by ignoring.
- snug — warmly comfortable or cozy, as a place, accommodations, etc.: a snug little house.
- spun — a simple past tense and past participle of spin.
- stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
- sung — a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
- suni — a small South African antelope, Neotragus moschatus
- sunk — a simple past tense and past participle of sink.
- sunn — a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- suny — State University of New York
- thun — a city in central Switzerland, on the Aar River, near the Lake of Thun.
- tncu — Tamil Nadu Cooperative Union
- tnlu — Tamil Nadu Labour Union
- toun — a town
- tuan — (in Malay-speaking countries) sir; lord: a form of address used as a mark of respect
- tuna — any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas. Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- tund — to beat or hit (someone or something)
- tune — Thomas James ("Tommy") born 1939, U.S. dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and director.
- tuny — having an easily discernable melody
- turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- u nu — U [oo] /u/ (Show IPA), (Thauin Nu) 1907–1995, Burmese political leader: prime minister 1948–56, 1957–58, 1960–62.
- udon — thick, white Japanese noodles made from wheat flour, often served in soup.
- ulan — one of a group of lancers in a light-cavalry unit, first appearing in Europe in the Polish army.
- ulna — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
- un*x — (operating system, convention) Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography. Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the TM-postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g. "YHWH" or "G--d" is used. See also glob.
- unau — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- unbe — to (cause to) lack existence
- unci — any hook-shaped or curved part of a body process, especially the hippocampal gyrus in the temporal lobe of the brain.
- unco — remarkable; extraordinary.
- undo — to reverse the doing of; cause to be as if never done: Murder once done can never be undone.
- unef — United Nations Emergency Force
- uni- — consisting of, relating to, or having only one
- unis — university.
- unit — a single thing or person.
- univ — Univ is a written abbreviation for university which is used especially in the names of universities.
- unix — (operating system) /yoo'niks/ (Or "UNIX", in the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multics") Plural "Unices". An interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C, is considered a co-author of the system. The turning point in Unix's history came when it was reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972 - 1974, making it the first source-portable OS. Unix subsequently underwent mutations and expansions at the hands of many different people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. By 1991, Unix had become the most widely used multi-user general-purpose operating system in the world. Many people consider this the most important victory yet of hackerdom over industry opposition (but see Unix weenie and Unix conspiracy for an opposing point of view). Unix is now offered by many manufacturers and is the subject of an international standardisation effort [called?]. Unix-like operating systems include AIX, A/UX, BSD, Debian, FreeBSD, GNU, HP-UX, Linux, NetBSD, NEXTSTEP, OpenBSD, OPENSTEP, OSF, POSIX, RISCiX, Solaris, SunOS, System V, Ultrix, USG Unix, Version 7, Xenix. "Unix" or "UNIX"? Both seem roughly equally popular, perhaps with a historical bias toward the latter. "UNIX" is a registered trademark of The Open Group, however, since it is a name and not an acronym, "Unix" has been adopted in this dictionary except where a larger name includes it in upper case. Since the OS is case-sensitive and exists in many different versions, it is fitting that its name should reflect this.
- unto — to (in its various uses, except as the accompaniment of the infinitive).
- upon — to, toward, or at an elevated place on or in: They went up the stairs. The cat is up the tree.
- uran — monitor (def 13).
- usng — United States National Guard
- vuln — to harm or wound
- xfun — A polymorphic functional language which is a cross between SML and Russell, developed by S. Dalmas <[email protected]> of INRIA in 1991, and intended for computer algebra.
- yaun — /yawn/ Yet Another Unix Nerd. Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots.