6-letter words containing o, u, n
- outken — (transitive) To surpass or exceed in kenning.
- outman — to surpass in manpower.
- outran — simple past tense of outrun.
- outrun — to run faster or farther than.
- outsin — to sin more than
- outwin — to get out (from)
- own up — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- panuco — a river in E central Mexico, flowing E to the Gulf of Mexico. About 315 miles (505 km) long.
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- podunk — any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village: After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.
- pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- popgun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
- potgun — a pot-shaped gun or mortar, a gun with a large bore
- pounce — to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey.
- progun — in favour of the public owning firearms
- put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
- quango — (especially in Great Britain) a semi-public advisory and administrative body supported by the government and having most of its members appointed by the government.
- quezon — Maˈnuel Luˈis (mɑnˈwɛl luˈis ) ; mänwelˈ lo̅oēsˈ) 1878-1944; Philippine statesman: 1st president of the Philippines (1935-44)
- quino- — indicating cinchona, cinchona bark, or quinic acid
- quinoa — a tall crop plant, Chenopodium quinoa, of the amaranth family, cultivated mainly in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile for its small, ivory-colored seed, which is used as a food staple.
- quinol — hydroquinone.
- quoins — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- rotund — round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
- rounce — the handle that is turned to move paper and plates on a printing press
- run on — melted or liquefied: run butter.
- run to — If you run to someone, you go to them for help or to tell them something.
- run-on — of or designating something that is added or run on: a run-on entry in a dictionary.
- runoff — a final contest held to determine a victor after earlier contests have eliminated the weaker contestants.
- runout — the act of evading a jump or jumping outside of the limiting markers.
- runyon — (Alfred) Damon [dey-muh n] /ˈdeɪ mən/ (Show IPA), 1884–1946, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.
- ruston — a city in N Louisiana.
- senufo — a member of a group of indigenous people of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, known for their music and art.
- shogun — the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
- shunto — the annual sessions of collective bargaining for wage increases sought by Japanese labor unions each spring.
- siouan — an American Indian language family formerly widespread from Saskatchewan to the lower Mississippi, also found in the Virginia and Carolina piedmont, and including Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Osage, and Winnebago.
- snouty — resembling a snout
- somnus — the ancient Roman god of sleep, a son of Night and brother of Death.
- sounds — music, esp jazz, rock, or electronic
- stound — Archaic. a short time; short while.
- suborn — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- summon — to call upon to do something specified.
- sunbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, appearing in the spray of cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, etc.
- sundog — parhelion.
- sutton — a borough of Greater London, England.
- swound — swoon.
- tenuto — Music. (of a note, chord, or rest) held to the full time value.
- teuton — a member of a Germanic people or tribe first mentioned in the 4th century b.c. and supposed to have dwelt in Jutland.
- ton-up — (esp of a motorcycle) capable of speeds of a hundred miles per hour or more
- tongue — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.