7-letter words containing s, u, n
- suttung — one of the Jotun, who for a time was the owner of the mead of poetry, guarded by his daughter Gunnlod, who lost a portion of it to Odin when he seduced her.
- suzanne — a female given name, French form of Susanna or Susannah.
- swounds — swoon.
- synfuel — synthetic fuel.
- temenus — a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- tenuous — lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
- tetanus — Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and lower jaw. Compare lockjaw.
- tonsure — the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- tousing — to handle roughly; dishevel.
- tsunami — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tubings — material in the form of a tube: glass tubing.
- tundish — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- tunisia — a republic in N Africa, on the Mediterranean: a French protectorate until 1956. 48,330 sq. mi. (125,175 sq. km). Capital: Tunis.
- tuscany — a region in W central Italy: formerly a grand duchy. 8879 sq. mi. (22,995 sq. km).
- uisnech — the father of Naoise.
- unalist — a priest holding only one benefice or stipendiary church office
- unasked — not asked: an unasked question.
- unbased — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- unbless — to deprive of a blessing
- unbosom — to disclose (a confidence, secret, etc.).
- uncinus — a small hooked structure, such as any of the hooked chaetae of certain polychaete worms
- unclasp — to undo the clasp or clasps of; unfasten.
- unclose — to open or cause to open
- uncross — to change from a crossed position, as the legs.
- uncurse — to remove a curse from
- undress — to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
- undrest — to take the clothes off (a person); disrobe.
- unflesh — to remove flesh from
- unflush — to lose the colour caused by flushing
- unfrost — a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
- unfused — not fused
- unfussy — full of details, especially in excess: His writing is so fussy I lose the thread of the story.
- unhasty — not speedy
- unhorse — to cause to fall from a horse, as in battle; dislodge from the saddle: Sir Gawain unhorsed the strange knight.
- unhouse — to drive from a house or habitation; deprive of shelter.
- unisize — made to fit all sizes, types, weights, etc., within the ordinary range: unisize swimming trunks.
- unities — the state of being one; oneness.
- unixism — (operating system, jargon) A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of "fork"; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare vaxocentrism. See also New Jersey.
- unkelos — Onkelos.
- unleash — to release from or as if from a leash; set loose to pursue or run at will.
- unloose — to loosen or relax (the grasp, hold, fingers, etc.).
- unnoisy — quiet
- unposed — not posed; not done for effect; natural or candid: her unposed manner; an unposed photograph.
- unpurse — to relax (the lips) from a pursed position
- unrisen — not risen
- unrisky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- unroost — to remove from a perch
- unsaint — to divest of sainthood
- unsated — unsatisfied
- unsaved — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.