6-letter words containing u, i, n
- injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- injury — harm or damage that is done or sustained: to escape without injury.
- injust — (archaic) Unjust, unfair.
- ink up — to apply ink to (a printing machine) in preparing it for operation
- inlaut — medial position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
- innuit — Inuit.
- inpour — (transitive, archaic) To pour in.
- inputs — Plural form of input.
- inrush — a rushing or pouring in.
- insoul — ensoul.
- insula — a group of convolutions situated at the base of the lateral fissure of the brain.
- insull — Samuel, 1859–1938, U.S. public utilities magnate, born in England.
- insult — to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.
- insure — to guarantee against loss or harm.
- intuit — Understand or work out by instinct.
- intune — To intone.
- inturn — an inward turn or curve around an axis or fixed point.
- intuse — a contusion or bruise
- inulin — a polysaccharide, (C 6 H 10 O 5) n , obtained from the roots of certain plants, especially elecampane, dahlia, and Jerusalem artichoke, that undergoes hydrolysis to the dextrorotatory form of fructose: used chiefly as an ingredient in diabetic bread, in processed foods to increase their fiber content, and as a reagent in diagnosing kidney function.
- inupik — Inuit.
- inured — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inure.
- inurns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inurn.
- inuvik — a town in the Northwest Territories, Canada, on the Mackenzie River at the Beaufort Sea.
- ionium — a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of thorium. Symbol: Io; atomic number: 90; atomic weight: 230.
- ithunn — a goddess, keeper of the apples of youth and wife of Bragi; abducted by the giant Thjazi, from whom she was rescued.
- itunes — a computer application enabling users to download music from the internet, create and order playlists, etc
- juking — to make a move intended to deceive (an opponent).
- julian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Julius Caesar.
- jungli — the inhabitants of the jungle
- junior — younger (designating the younger of two men bearing the same full name, as a son named after his father; often written as Jr. or jr. following the name): May I speak with the junior Mr. Hansen? Mr. Edward Andrew Hansen, Jr. Compare senior (def 1).
- junius — the pen name of the unknown author of a series of letters published in a London newspaper (1769–72), attacking the British king and his ministers' abuse of royal prerogative in denying John Wilkes his seat in Parliament.
- junkie — a drug addict, especially one addicted to heroin.
- justin — a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “just.”.
- kanuri — a member of a people living in northeast Nigeria and in Niger.
- kiruna — a city in N Sweden: important iron-mining center.
- kunitz — Stanley, 1905–2006, U.S. poet and translator: U.S. poet laureate 2000–01.
- kuprin — Alexander Ivanovich [al-ig-zan-der i-vah-nuh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1938, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
- kutani — Japanese porcelain made in Kaga province in the late 17th century, often with both underglaze and overglaze enamel decoration; imitated in the 19th century.
- laurin — (chemistry) A white crystalline substance extracted from the fruit of the bay (Laurus nobilis), and consisting of a complex mixture of glycerin ethers of several organic acids.
- leucin — Dated form of leucine.
- lindum — a city in E central England, administrative centre of Lincolnshire: an important ecclesiastical and commercial centre in the Middle Ages; Roman ruins, a castle (founded by William the Conqueror) and a famous cathedral (begun in 1086). Pop: 85 963 (2001)
- lineup — a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
- lingua — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- linkup — a contact or linkage established, as between military units or two spacecraft.
- lubing — Present participle of lube.
- lublin — a city in E Poland.
- lucian — a.d. 117–c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist.
- lucina — a title or name given to Juno as goddess of childbirth
- lucine — A bivalve mollusk that typically has a rounded white shell with radial and concentric ridges, found in tropical and temperate seas.