9-letter words containing s, u, n
- grundyism — a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.
- grunitsky — Nicolas, 1913–69, African statesman: president of the Republic of Togo 1963–67.
- guanosine — a ribonucleoside component of ribonucleic acid, comprising ribose and guanine.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- guernseys — Plural form of guernsey.
- guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
- guildsman — a member of a guild.
- guildsmen — a member of a guild.
- gum resin — a plant exudation consisting of a mixture of gum and resin.
- gumminess — The state or condition of being gummy.
- gunfights — Plural form of gunfight.
- gunflints — Plural form of gunflint.
- gunmakers — Plural form of gunmaker.
- gunnysack — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunsights — Plural form of gunsight.
- gunsmiths — Plural form of gunsmith.
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gushingly — In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
- gustation — the act of tasting.
- gustiness — blowing or coming in gusts, as wind, rain, or storms.
- gutsiness — The state or condition of being gutsy.
- gymnasium — a building or room designed and equipped for indoor sports, exercise, or physical education.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- haussmann — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- hazelnuts — Plural form of hazelnut.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hen-house — a shelter for poultry.
- henequens — Plural form of henequen.
- henhouses — Plural form of henhouse.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- huffiness — The property of being huffy.