9-letter words containing s, i, u, n
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- avifaunas — Plural form of avifauna.
- baigneuse — a day bed of the Empire period, having a back sloping and curving to form a rounded head and foot.
- base unit — any of the fundamental units in a system of measurement. The base SI units are the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
- beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
- bensulide — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 14 H 24 O 4 NPS 3 , used primarily to control crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- biogenous — the production of living organisms from other living organisms.
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- brunswick — a former duchy (1635–1918) and state (1918–46) of central Germany, now part of the state of Lower Saxony; formerly (1949–90) part of West Germany
- buckskins — (in the US and Canada) breeches, shoes, or a suit of buckskin
- bulkiness — of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burnsides — thick side whiskers worn with a moustache and clean-shaven chin
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- canonicus — c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- caucasian — A Caucasian person is a white person.
- caucusing — Present participle of caucus.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- cgs units — a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- chipmunks — Plural form of chipmunk.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- clianthus — any Australian or New Zealand plant of the leguminous genus Clianthus, with ornamental clusters of slender scarlet flowers
- cohousing — a type of housing with some shared facilities
- coinsurer — A coinsurer is a person or company whose policy covers the same risk as that of another person or company, and shares the loss.
- coinsures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coinsure.
- collusion — Collusion is secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- communise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of communize.
- communism — advocacy of a classless society in which private ownership has been abolished and the means of production and subsistence belong to the community