6-letter words containing s, i, u
- lugosi — Bela, 1884–1956, U.S. actor, born in Hungary: best known for his roles in horror films.
- lungis — Plural form of lungi.
- lupins — Plural form of lupin.
- lutist — a lute player; lutenist.
- maquis — the French underground movement, or Resistance, that combatted the Nazis in World War II.
- marius — Gaius, c155–86 b.c, Roman general and consul: opponent of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- medius — the middle finger.
- miaous — the characteristic sound a cat makes.
- miauls — Plural form of miaul.
- mingus — Charles ("Charlie") 1922–79, U.S. jazz bass player and composer.
- misbug — /mis-buhg/ [MIT] An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful; something that should have been a bug but turns out to be a feature. Usage: rare. Compare green lightning. See miswart.
- miscue — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- miscut — to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
- misrun — an incomplete casting, the metal of which has solidified prematurely.
- missus — missis.
- misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
- miurus — a type of metre in poetry consisting of a hexameter with a short second last syllable
- mobius — August Ferdinand [ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1790–1868, German mathematician.
- modius — a measure of capacity or quantity for dry substances that equates to about 9 litres
- mousie — (diminutive) A mouse.
- msggui — (library) A graphical user interface for GNU Smalltalk. The msgGUI package contains the basics for creating window applications in the manner available in other graphical Smalltalk implementations. Version 1.0 of the library was by Mark Bush, ECS, Oxford University, UK.
- mucins — Plural form of mucin.
- muesli — a breakfast cereal similar to granola, usually consisting of rolled oats and dried fruit.
- muftis — Plural form of mufti.
- mujiks — Plural form of mujik.
- mulish — of or like a mule, as being very stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
- mullis — Kary Banks [kair-ee,, kar-ee] /ˈkɛər i,, ˈkær i/ (Show IPA), born 1944, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1993.
- munshi — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- muscid — belonging or pertaining to the Muscidae, the family of dipterous insects that includes the common housefly.
- mushin — a city in SW Nigeria, NW of Lagos.
- musial — Stanley Frank ("Stan the Man") 1920–2013, U.S. baseball player.
- musick — to compose music for (a poem, libretto, etc.)
- musics — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- musimp — (language) A Lisp variant used as the programming language for the IBM PC symbolic mathematics package MuMath.
- musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- musive — relating to or forming a mosaic
- musjid — masjid.
- muskie — Edmund (Sixtus) [sik-stuh s] /ˈsɪk stəs/ (Show IPA), 1914–96, U.S. politician: senator 1959–80; secretary of state 1980–81.
- muslim — of or relating to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam.
- muslin — a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes.
- mutism — an inability to speak, due to a physical defect, conscious refusal, or psychogenic inhibition.
- mxibus — Multisystem eXtention Interface Bus
- nimbus — Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- nisgul — the smallest and weakest bird in a brood of chickens
- nistru — Romanian name of Dniester.
- nudies — a film, performance, or magazine featuring nude performers or photographs.
- nudism — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- nudist — the practice of going nude, especially in places that allow sexually mixed groups, in the belief that such practice benefits health.
- nursie — (childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse.
- odious — deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.