9-letter words containing s, u, n
- prelusion — a prelude.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- presuming — presumptuous.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- pudendous — shameful
- pugginess — stumpiness
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- punchless — having no punch
- punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- pushiness — obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- quadrants — Plural form of quadrant.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- quaintest — Superlative form of quaint.
- quandongs — Plural form of quandong.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize.
- quarterns — Plural form of quartern.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.
- queenfish — a silvery and bluish drum, Seriphus politus, inhabiting shallow waters along the coast of California.
- queenless — having no queen
- queenship — the state, office, or dignity of a queen.
- queenside — the side of the board on which the queen is positioned at the start of a game, left for white and right for black.
- queerness — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
- quenelles — Plural form of quenelle.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- quidnuncs — Plural form of quidnunc.
- quiescent — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quiesence — Misspelling of quiescence.
- quiet sun — the sun at the minimum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
- quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.