6-letter words containing s, u, n
- musang — A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant.
- mushin — a city in SW Nigeria, NW of Lagos.
- musing — absorbed in thought; meditative.
- 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.
- musmon — A kind of sheep, the mouflon.
- musnud — a seat or throne of cushions used by native princes.
- nablus — a town of ancient Palestine, near the city of Samaria; occupied by Israel 1967–96; since 1996 under Palestinian self-rule: first capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.
- naevus — (anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired. This term is reserved for benign skin lesions.
- nashua — a city in S New Hampshire, on the Merrimack River.
- nassau — (used with a plural verb) a group of islands in the W Atlantic Ocean, SE of Florida.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- nausea — sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit.
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- nereus — a sea god, the son of Pontus and Gaea and father of the Nereids.
- nessus — a centaur who, on attempting to seduce Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was shot by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Before Nessus died, he gave to Deianira the poisoned tunic that ultimately caused Hercules' death.
- neumes — Plural form of neume.
- 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.
- nodous — having nodes.
- nonuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- noyous — annoying; troublesome
- nudest — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- nudges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nudge.
- 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.
- nueces — a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
- nummus — (historical) Any of a range of low-value copper coins issued by the Roman and Byzantine empires during Late Antiquity.
- nursed — Simple past tense and past participle of nurse.
- nurser — a person, animal, or thing that nurses.
- nurses — Plural form of nurse.
- nursey — Alternative form of nursie.
- nursie — (childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse.
- nursle — (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
- nustle — (obsolete) To fondle; to cherish.
- oeneus — a king of Calydon believed to have been the first man to cultivate grapes.
- onrush — a strong forward rush, flow, etc.
- onuses — Plural form of onus.
- osmund — a superior quality of iron, formerly used for fishhooks, arrowheads, etc.
- ounces — Plural form of ounce.
- outsin — to sin more than
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- peneus — ancient name of Salambria.
- pensum — a piece of work or a task to be completed, esp a school exercise
- pignus — property held as security for a debt.
- pincus — Gregory Goodwin. 1903–67, US physiologist, whose work on steroid hormones led to the development of the first contraceptive pill
- pindus — a mountain range in central Greece: highest peak, 7665 feet (2335 meters).
- pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- prunes — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.