8-letter words containing u, n, c
- baculine — relating to flogging with a rod
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- bechuana — a former name for a member of the Bantu people of Botswana
- beechnut — the small brown triangular edible nut of the beech tree
- beuncled — having many uncles
- blackmun — Harry Andrew1908-99; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1970-94)
- bouncing — If you say that someone is bouncing with health, you mean that they are very healthy. You can also refer to a bouncing baby.
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- bruckner — Anton (ˈantoːn). 1824–96, Austrian composer and organist in the Romantic tradition. His works include nine symphonies, four masses, and a Te Deum
- bruncher — a person who eats brunch
- bucatini — pasta in the shape of long tubes
- buchanan — George. 1506–82, Scottish historian, who was tutor to Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI; author of History of Scotland (1582)
- buckbean — a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae
- buckhorn — horn from a buck, used for knife handles, etc
- buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
- buckling — Buckling happens when a force presses on a slender structure and makes it collapse.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- bucovina — Bukovina
- bucrania — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bullneck — an enlarged neck
- bunch up — If people or things bunch up or bunch together, or if you bunch them up or bunch them together, they move close to each other so that they form a small tight group.
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- buncombe — bunkum
- buoyance — the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
- buoyancy — Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- caducean — relating to a caduceus
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- cameroun — Cameroon
- can buoy — a buoy with a flat-topped cylindrical shape above water, marking the left side of a channel leading into a harbour: red in British waters but green (occasionally black) in US waters
- canegrub — any of various grubs that are a pest of sugar cane, esp, in Australia, the greyback canegrub, Dermolepida albohirtum
- canicula — Sirius, the Dog Star
- cannulae — Irregular plural form of cannula.
- cannular — shaped like a cannula
- cannulas — Plural form of cannula.
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- canticum — a canticle
- cantuar. — Cantuariensis
- canulate — Alternative form of cannulate.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head
- carinula — a small carina.
- carnauba — a Brazilian fan palm, Copernicia cerifera
- carneous — fleshy
- caruncle — a fleshy outgrowth on the heads of certain birds, such as a cock's comb