5-letter words containing o, u, n
- mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- mourn — Feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
- mungo — a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- munro — Alice (Laidlaw) [leyd-law] /ˈleɪdˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Canadian short-story writer.
- muons — Plural form of muon.
- muton — The smallest element of genetic material capable of undergoing a distinct mutation, usually identified as a single pair of nucleotides.
- neuro — (informal) Neurologist.
- nodus — a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
- non-u — not characteristic of or appropriate to the upper class, especially of Great Britain: certain words and phrases that are considered absolutely non-U.
- notum — a dorsal plate or sclerite of the thorax of an insect.
- notus — the ancient Greek personification of the south wind.
- nouch — (obsolete) An ouch; a jewel.
- nould — would not
- nouns — any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group. See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase. Synonyms: substantive, name.
- nouny — (of a word) resembling a noun
- nouse — (neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.
- novum — A new feature.
- noyau — A liqueur made of brandy flavored with fruit kernels.
- nuevo — New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture.
- nullo — (in certain card games) a bid to take no tricks.
- nutso — Insane.
- oaniu — Onitsha Ado National Improvement Union
- onium — (chemistry) any cation derived by the addition of a proton to the hydride of any element of the nitrogen, chalcogen or halogen families.
- onkus — unpleasant, unattractive, or unacceptable; bad.
- oshun — a state of SW Nigeria. Capital: Oshogbo. Pop: 3 423 535 (2006). Area: 9251 sq km (3570 sq miles)
- ouens — Plural form of ou.
- ounce — snow leopard.
- oundy — wavy or curly
- outen — to turn off (a light) or extinguish (a fire).
- ponzu — a type of Japanese dipping sauce made from orange juice, sake, sugar, soy sauce, and red pepper
- pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- punto — a hit or sword thrust
- puton — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- quoin — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- quonk — an accidental noise picked up on a microphone while broadcasting
- quorn — a vegetable protein developed from a type of fungus and used in cooking as a meat substitute
- rouen — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
- round — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- rouyn — a city in SW Quebec, in E Canada: gold and copper mining.
- snout — the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
- sound — The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
- sunos — (operating system) Sun Microsystems' version of Unix for Sun workstations. SunOS is similar to BSD Unix with some SVR4 features and OpenWindows 3.0. After version 4, SunOS was integrated into Sun's Solaris "operating environment".
- suwon — a city in NW South Korea, S of Seoul.
- tauon — tau lepton.
- tonus — a normal state of continuous slight tension in muscle tissue that facilitates its response to stimulation.
- torun — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula.
- tungo — rat-kangaroo.
- ulno- — the ulna and
- unbox — to remove from a box.
- uncol — UNiversal Computer Oriented Language. A universal intermediate language, discussed but never implemented.