8-letter words containing n, u
- cheshunt — a town in SE England, in SE Hertfordshire: a dormitory town of London. Pop: 55 275 (2001)
- chesnutt — Charles Waddell [wo-del] /wɒˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
- chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.
- chisinau — the capital of Moldova on the Bîk River: manufacturing centre of a rich agricultural region; university (1945). Pop: 662 000 (2005 est)
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- chuck in — to abandon or give up
- chucking — Machinery. to hold or secure with a chuck.
- chuffing — (intensifier)
- chugging — a large gulp or swallow: He finished his beer in two chugs.
- chumming — cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- chumping — the act of collecting wood for bonfires on Guy Fawkes Day
- chunchon — a city in N South Korea.
- chunders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunder.
- chunk up — to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- chunkily — In a chunky way.
- chunking — the grouping together of a number of items by the mind, after which they can be remembered as a single item, such as a word or a musical phrase
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- churning — Churning water is moving about violently.
- churring — to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
- chutneys — Plural form of chutney.
- cicinnus — a scorpioid cyme
- cincture — something that encircles or surrounds, esp a belt, girdle, or border
- cingular — ring-shaped; girdle-like
- cingulum — a girdle-like part, such as the ridge round the base of a tooth or the band of fibres connecting parts of the cerebrum
- cinquain — a stanza of five lines
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon
- clangour — a loud resonant often-repeated noise
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- clausing — (shipping) present participle of clause.
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- clean-up — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- cleanout — the removal of something from a place
- cleanups — Plural form of cleanup.
- cleburne — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
- clinique — Archaic spelling of clinic.
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- clucking — Present participle of cluck.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clunkers — Plural form of clunker.
- clunking — a hard hit, especially on the head.
- cocoanut — the large, hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.