9-letter words containing s, u, n
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- musicians — Plural form of musician.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- muskiness — The characteristic of being musky.
- muskingum — a river in E Ohio, flowing S and SE to the Ohio River. 111 miles (179 km) long.
- muskmelon — a round or oblong melon, occurring in many varieties, having a juicy, often aromatic, sweet, yellow, white, or green, edible flesh.
- muskogean — a family of American Indian languages of the southeastern U.S., including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and several less well-known languages.
- musomania — An obsession with music.
- mussolini — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Italian be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Italian bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), (I"Il Duce") 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.
- mussulman — a Muslim.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- musteline — belonging or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, including the martens, skunks, minks, weasels, badgers, and otters.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mustiness — having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold, as old buildings, long-closed rooms, or stale food.
- 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.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- muzziness — The state or quality of being muzzy.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- myoclonus — an abrupt spasm or twitch of a muscle or group of muscles, occurring in some neurological diseases.
- nabonidus — died 539? b.c, last king of Babylonia 556–539 (father of Belshazzar).
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- namaycush — a lake trout.
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- 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.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nebulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nebulize.
- nebulosus — (of a cloud) having indistinct details.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nefandous — Unspeakable, appalling.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- negotious — Engaged in negotiation; Occupied with a conversation.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neotenous — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- neuristor — a microelectronic fiberlike device used in information processing.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrinos — Plural form of neutrino.
- new issue — an issue of shares being offered to the public for the first time
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.