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9-letter words containing n, u

  • argumenta — appeals to reason
  • arguments — an oral disagreement; verbal opposition; contention; altercation: a violent argument.
  • arrhenius — Svante August (ˈsvantə ˈauɡʊst). 1859–1927, Swedish chemist and physicist, noted for his work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation: Nobel prize for chemistry 1903
  • arsenious — of or containing arsenic in the trivalent state
  • art union — a lottery, often with prizes other than cash
  • arthurian — of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
  • ascendeur — a metal grip that is threaded on a rope and can be alternately tightened and slackened as an aid to climbing the rope: used attached to slings for the feet and waist
  • ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
  • asian flu — a type of influenza recurring in worldwide epidemics, caused by a virus (A2 strain or subsequent antigenic variants), which apparently originated in China in 1957
  • asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
  • assuaging — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  • assurance — If you give someone an assurance that something is true or will happen, you say that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, in order to make them feel less worried.
  • assurgent — (of leaves, stems, etc) curving or growing upwards; rising
  • astounded — If you are astounded by something, you are very shocked or surprised that it could exist or happen.
  • astronaut — An astronaut is a person who is trained for travelling in a spacecraft.
  • athenaeum — an institution for the promotion of learning
  • athenaeus — late 2nd century a.d, Greek philosopher and rhetorician at Naucratis in Egypt.
  • attenuant — causing dilution or thinness, esp of the blood
  • attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
  • attuition — a way of mentally perceiving which is between human perception and animal sensation
  • au gratin — covered and cooked with browned breadcrumbs and sometimes cheese
  • aubergine — An aubergine is a vegetable with a smooth, dark purple skin.
  • auctioned — Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
  • audiences — the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert: The audience was respectful of the speaker's opinion.
  • audiencia — a high court, found in South America during the colonial period
  • audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
  • auditions — Plural form of audition.
  • aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
  • augmented — (of an interval) increased or expanded from the state of being perfect or major by the raising of the higher note or the dropping of the lower note by one semitone
  • augmenter — a person or thing that augments.
  • augmentin — (medicine) The antibiotic amoxicillin.
  • augmentor — a person or thing that augments.
  • augustine — Saint. 354–430 ad, one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28
  • auntie-ji — a respectful name and form of address given to a woman from the generation older than oneself
  • aurangzeb — 1618–1707, Mogul emperor of Hindustan (1658–1707), whose reign marked both the height of Mogul prosperity and the decline of its power through the revolts of the Marathas
  • auranofin — a gold-containing compound, C 20 H 34 AuO 9 PS, used orally in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
  • auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
  • aureation — (rhetoric) The enhancement of the seriousness of a topic by the use of elaborate circumlocutions or polysyllabic or Latinate words for it.
  • auriculin — atrial natriuretic factor.
  • aurobindo — Sri (Sri Aurobindo Ghose) 1872–1950, Indian scholar and spiritual leader.
  • aurungzeb — Aurangzeb
  • auslander — (in a German-speaking country) a foreigner
  • auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
  • austenite — a solid solution of carbon in face-centred-cubic gamma iron, usually existing above 723°C
  • austinite — (rare, mineral) A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zone of some arsenic-rich base-metal deposits.
  • authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
  • authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
  • auto-tune — (sometimes lowercase) to alter (recorded audio) to correct pitch and timing or create a melody.
  • autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
  • autocrine — relating to self-stimulation, through the production of a factor and a specific receptor for it
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