8-letter words containing u, n, a
- arbutean — relating to arbutus, or made from arbutus wood
- argentum — silver. Symbol: Ag.
- argonaut — one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- ariminum — Rimini
- armgaunt — (of limbs) slender
- arminius — ?17 bc–?21 ad, Germanic chieftain: organized a revolt against the Romans in 9 ad
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arsenous — of or containing trivalent arsenic
- arsonous — relating to arson
- ascanius — the son of Aeneas and Creusa; founder of Alba Longa, mother city of Rome
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- asturian — of or relating to Asturias
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- atheneum — (initial capital letter) a sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- aubusson — a town in central France, in the Creuse department: a centre for flat-woven carpets and for tapestries since the 16th century. Pop: 4662 (1999)
- auckland — the chief port of New Zealand, in the northern part of North Island: former capital of New Zealand (1840–65). Pop: 450 300 (2010 est)
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- audioone — (tool, music) Digital recording and editing software developed by BizTrack Software Development for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.
- augustan — characteristic of, denoting, or relating to the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar (63 bc–14 ad), his period, or the poets, notably Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, writing during his reign
- aularian — a student at an English university who belongs to a hall as opposed to a college
- auncient — Obsolete form of ancient.
- aunthood — the state of being, or relationship of, aunt
- auntlike — similar to or like an aunt
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- aurelian — Latin name Lucius Domitius Aurelianus. ?212–275 ad, Roman emperor (270–275), who conquered Palmyra (273) and restored political unity to the Roman Empire
- aureolin — a pigment used in painting, consisting of potassium cobaltinitrite and characterized by its brilliant yellow hue, transparency, and permanence.
- aurignac — a village in S France: many prehistoric artifacts found in area.
- aurorean — of or resembling dawn
- aurulent — Gold in color.
- ausonius — Decimus Magnus (ˈdɛsɪməs ˈmæɡnəs). ?310–?395 ad, Latin poet, born in Gaul
- austrian — Austrian means belonging or relating to Austria, or to its people or culture.
- autobahn — An autobahn is a German motorway.
- autobank — a machine offering cash and other banking services
- autoconf — (software, tool) The GNU project's tool that configures a source code distribution to compile and run on a different platform. Among open source hackers, a mere running binary of a program is not considered a full release; what's interesting is a source tree that can be built into binaries using standard tools. Since the mid-1990s, autoconf, automake, and libtools have been the standard way to make a distribution portable so that it can be built on multiple operating systems without change.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autotune — a software package that automatically manipulates a recording of a vocal track until it is in tune regardless of whether or not the original performance was in tune