9-letter words containing n, u
- adjusting — Alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result.
- adjutancy — the rank or office of a military adjutant
- adjutants — Plural form of adjutant.
- adjuvants — Plural form of adjuvant.
- aduantage — Obsolete spelling of advantage.
- adulating — Present participle of adulate.
- adulation — Adulation is uncritical admiration and praise of someone or something.
- adultness — the state or quality of being an adult; an impression of maturity
- adumbrant — Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- affluence — Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living.
- affluency — affluence (def 2).
- affluents — Plural form of affluent.
- affluenza — the guilt or lack of motivation experienced by people who have made or inherited large amounts of money
- affluxion — a streaming or flowing towards something
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- agustin i — Itúrbide, Agustín de.
- ahungered — very hungry.
- ailanthus — an E Asian simaroubaceous deciduous tree, Ailanthus altissima, planted in Europe and North America, having pinnate leaves, small greenish flowers, and winged fruits
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- all found — with everything provided, such as food, electricity, heating and laundry, at no additional cost
- all-round — An all-round person is good at a lot of different skills, academic subjects, or sports.
- allusions — Plural form of allusion.
- alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
- aluminate — a salt of the ortho or meta acid forms of aluminium hydroxide containing the ions AlO2– or AlO33–
- aluminise — To coat with a layer of aluminium.
- aluminite — a mineral, hydrous aluminum sulfate, Al 2 (SO 4)(OH) 4 ⋅7H 2 O, occurring in white, chalky masses.
- aluminium — Aluminium is a lightweight metal used, for example, for making cooking equipment and aircraft parts.
- aluminize — to cover with aluminium or aluminium paint
- aluminous — resembling aluminium
- ambulance — An ambulance is a vehicle for taking people to and from hospital.
- ambulante — a portable tea table, used in 18th-century France.
- ambushing — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
- amenaunce — a person's bearing or demeanour
- amianthus — any of the fine silky varieties of asbestos
- amount to — If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.
- amounting — the sum total of two or more quantities or sums; aggregate.
- amusement — Amusement is the feeling that you have when you think that something is funny or amusing.
- amusingly — pleasantly entertaining or diverting: an amusing speaker.
- anacletus — flourished 1st century a.d, pope 76–88.