9-letter words containing s, t, a, n, u
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- multiscan — (hardware) A monitor that can synchronise to a variety of horizontal scan rates and refresh rates, allowing it to display images at different resolutions.
- muscatine — a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- mute swan — a commonly domesticated soundless white swan, Cygnus olor, of Europe and Asia.
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- naturists — Plural form of naturist.
- naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- nauseated — to affect with nausea; sicken.
- nauseates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nauseate.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- nucleates — Plural form of nucleate.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.
- nuristani — Kafir (def 1).
- nut grass — either of two sedges, Cyperus rotundus or C. esculentus, that have small, nutlike tubers and are often troublesome weeds.
- nystagmus — a congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyeball, usually from side to side.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstand.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pant suit — women's shirt and trousers
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quaintest — Superlative form of quaint.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize.
- quarterns — Plural form of quartern.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.
- quintains — Plural form of quintain.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.