6-letter words containing s, u, n
- prunus — a plant from the genus Prunus, bearing fruits such as the peach, cherry, plum, and almond
- puisne — Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment.
- punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- quants — Plural form of quant.
- queans — Plural form of quean.
- queens — a female sovereign or monarch.
- querns — Plural form of quern.
- quines — Plural form of quine.
- quinsy — a suppurative inflammation of the tonsils; suppurative tonsillitis; tonsillar abscess.
- quints — a quintuplet.
- quoins — an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
- rubens — Douay Bible. Reuben (defs 1, 2).
- rushen — made of rushes
- rusine — of or relating to the rusa
- ruskin — John, 1819–1900, English author, art critic, and social reformer.
- rustin — Bayard [bey-erd] /ˈbeɪ ərd/ (Show IPA), 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.
- ruston — a city in N Louisiana.
- samsun — a city in N Turkey, in Asia.
- sannup — a married American Indian man, especially a younger one; husband.
- santur — a Persian or Arabian dulcimer
- sanusi — a member of an Islamic brotherhood established among the anticolonial Bedouins of North Africa.
- saturn — an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
- sauncy — sonsy.
- schuln — shul.
- scrunt — a stunted thing
- scunge — to borrow
- scungy — miserable; sordid; dirty
- secund — arranged on one side only; unilateral.
- seguin — a city in SE Texas.
- sendup — a mocking parody, esp. when done with seeming gravity; takeoff; spoof
- senryu — a form of Japanese short poem similar to a haiku, but traditionally on the theme of human nature
- sensum — sense datum (def 1).
- senufo — a member of a group of indigenous people of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Burkina Faso, known for their music and art.
- sequin — a small shining disk or spangle used for ornamentation, as on women's clothing and accessories or on theatrical costumes.
- shinju — (formerly, in Japan) a ritual double suicide of lovers
- 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.
- shrunk — a past participle and simple past tense of shrink.
- shumen — a city in NE Bulgaria.
- shunto — the annual sessions of collective bargaining for wage increases sought by Japanese labor unions each spring.
- shutin — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
- signup — a token; indication.
- sinful — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
- 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.
- skunky — of, relating to, or characteristic of a skunk: a skunky odor.
- snefru — flourished c2920 b.c, Egyptian ruler of the 4th dynasty.
- snouty — resembling a snout
- snubbe — a stub or knob
- snubby — somewhat snub, as the nose.
- snudge — to be miserly or stingy
- snuffy — resembling snuff.