7-letter words containing n, u
- cussing — to use profanity; curse; swear.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- cutdown — a decrease or reduction in the number, size, or incidence of anything
- cutline — a caption accompanying an illustration
- cutting — A cutting is a piece of writing which has been cut from a newspaper or magazine.
- cynwulf — Cynewulf.
- danbury — city in SW Conn., near Bridgeport: pop. 75,000
- danseur — a male ballet dancer
- daubing — to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
- daunder — a walk or amble
- daunted — intimidated
- daunter — One who daunts.
- dauphin — In former times, the king and queen of France's oldest son was called the dauphin.
- dauting — to caress.
- debunks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debunk.
- decuman — a huge wave
- defunct — If something is defunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating.
- demount — to remove (a motor, gun, etc) from its mounting or setting
- deneuve — Catherine, original name Catherine Dorléac. born 1943, French film actress: her films include Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), Belle de jour (1967), Indochine (1992), and Dancer in the Dark (2000)
- denture — a partial or full set of artificial teeth
- denuded — to make naked or bare; strip: The storm completely denuded the trees.
- denudes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denude.
- dernful — sorrowful, mournful, gloomy
- detenue — female prisoner
- detinue — an action brought by a plaintiff to recover goods wrongfully detained
- detuned — Simple past tense and past participle of detune.
- diluent — serving to dilute; diluting.
- disjune — breakfast.
- distune — to cause (an instrument) to be out of tune
- disturn — (obsolete) To turn aside.
- diurnal — of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
- dominus — the Lord be with you.
- donatus — early-4th-century bishop of Casae Nigrae in northern Africa: leader of a heretical Christian group. Compare Donatist.
- donours — Plural form of donour.
- doucine — a type of moulding of the cornice
- dourine — an infectious disease of horses, affecting the genitals and hind legs, caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
- dousing — Present participle of douse.
- douting — Present participle of dout.
- drucken — drunken
- drumlin — a long, narrow or oval, smoothly rounded hill of unstratified glacial drift.
- drunked — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drunken — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunker — Comparative form of drunk.
- dry run — a rehearsal or practice exercise.
- du mont — Allen Balcom. 1901–65, US inventor and electronics manufacturer. He developed the cathode-ray tube used in television sets and oscilloscopes
- du pont — É(leuthère) I(rénée)1771-1834; Am. industrialist, born in France
- dubawnt — a river in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, flowing NE to Baker Lake. 580 miles (933 km) long.
- dubbing — the new sounds added to a film or tape.
- dubnium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Db; atomic number: 105.
- ducking — to stoop or bend suddenly; bob.