7-letter words containing u, n, c, a
- cornual — a horn, especially a bony part that resembles a horn.
- corunna — La Coruña
- courant — a courante
- courlan — limpkin
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- craunch — crunch
- crucian — a European cyprinid fish, Carassius carassius, with a dark-green back, a golden-yellow undersurface, and reddish dorsal and tail fins: an aquarium fish
- cubbena — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cullman — a city in N Alabama.
- cumaean — of Cumae
- cumarin — a fragrant crystalline substance, C 9 H 6 O 2 , obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, and certain other plants or prepared synthetically, used chiefly in soaps and perfumery.
- cuneate — wedge-shaped: cuneate leaves are attached at the narrow end
- currant — Currants are small dried black grapes, used especially in cakes.
- curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
- curtana — the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy
- cushman — Charlotte Saunders [sawn-derz,, sahn-] /ˈsɔn dərz,, ˈsɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1816–76, U.S. actress.
- cutbank — the outer, steeper bank of a bend or meander in a river or stream
- decuman — a huge wave
- dulcian — an organ-stop consisting of pipes made of reeds
- dunciad — a poem (1728–42) by Pope, satirizing various contemporary writers.
- durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- educand — Someone who is to be, or is being educated.
- eucaine — a crystalline optically active substance formerly used as a local anaesthetic. Formula: C15H21NO2
- faulcon — Obsolete form of falcon.
- flaunch — a cement or mortar slope around a chimney top, manhole, etc, to throw off water
- fructan — a type of polymer of fructose, present in certain fruits
- funchal — a group of eight islands off the NW coast of Africa, part of Portugal. 308 sq. mi. (798 sq. km). Capital: Funchal.
- funckia — any plant of the genus Hosta, resembling lilies
- furnace — a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.
- glucans — Plural form of glucan.
- glucina — (obsolete, chemistry) beryllium oxide.
- gnumacs — /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, Emacs. Used especially in contrast with GOSMACS.
- graunch — Make a crunching or grinding noise.
- guanaco — a wild South American ruminant, Lama guanicoe, of which the llama and alpaca are believed to be domesticated varieties: related to the camels.
- huanuco — a city in central Peru.
- incudal — Anatomy. the middle one of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals. Compare malleus, stapes.
- inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- iracund — prone to anger; irascible.
- kechuan — Quechuan.
- lacunae — a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- lacunal — of or relating to a lacuna.
- lacunar — Architecture. a coffered vault, ceiling, or soffit. coffer (def 4).
- lacunas — Plural form of lacuna.
- launces — Plural form of launce.
- lecuona — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1963, Cuban composer.
- lucania — an ancient region in S Italy, NW of the Gulf of Taranto.
- lucarne — a dormer window.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- manicou — The common opossum, taxonomic name Didelphis marsupialis.