6-letter words containing u, n, c
- coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- cougan — a rowdy person, esp one who drinks large quantities of alcohol
- counts — Plural form of count.
- county — A county is a region of Britain, Ireland, or the USA which has its own local government.
- coupon — a ticket issued to facilitate rationing
- cousin — Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
- couzin — a friend
- crinum — any plant of the mostly tropical amaryllidaceous genus Crinum, having straplike leaves and clusters of lily-like flowers
- cronus — a Titan, son of Uranus (sky) and Gaea (earth), who ruled the world until his son Zeus dethroned him
- cronut — A pastry which combines characteristics of a croissant and a doughnut.
- cruden — Alexander. 1701–70, Scottish bookseller and compiler of a well-known biblical concordance (1737)
- crumen — the suborbital gland in sheep, deer, or antelopes
- crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
- cruzan — a native or inhabitant of St. Croix.
- cuando — a river in central Angola, flowing SE to the Zambezi River. 457 miles (731 km) long.
- cuanza — a river in central Angola, flowing NW and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- cubane — a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8
- cubing — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- cucina — style of cooking; cuisine
- cudden — a coalfish
- cue in — to add (dialogue, music, etc.) at a particular point in a script
- cueing — Present participle of cue.
- cuenca — a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- cuffin — a man; chap
- culion — an island of the Philippines, in the W part of the group, N of Palawan. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km).
- cullen — William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
- cullin — (protein) Any of a family of proteins that have a role in protein degradation and ubiquitinylation.
- culmen — the summit
- cumana — a city in NE Venezuela: founded in 1523; the oldest European settlement in South America. Pop: 271 000 (2005 est)
- cumene — a colorless and toxic liquid, C 9 H 12 , soluble in alcohol: used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and acetone.
- cummin — Alternative spelling of cumin.
- cunard — Sir Samuel (1787–1865). Canadian shipping magnate, founder of the Cunard line
- cunaxa — the site near the lower Euphrates where Artaxerxes II defeated Cyrus the Younger in 401 bc
- cuneal — wedge-shaped; cuneiform
- cunene — a river in W central Angola, flowing S and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 750 miles (1207 km) long.
- cuneus — a small wedge-shaped area of the cerebral cortex
- cunner — a fish (Crenilabrus melops) of the wrasse family found in British coastal areas
- cupman — a drinking companion
- curing — the process of preserving food
- curnow — (Thomas) Allen (Monro). 1911–2001, New Zealand poet and anthologist
- curran — a currant
- curtin — John Joseph. 1885–1945, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1941–45)
- curzon — Sir Clifford. 1907–82, English pianist
- cut in — If you cut in on someone, you interrupt them when they are speaking.
- cut-in — Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity: We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.
- cutins — Plural form of cutin.
- cydnus — a river in SE Asia Minor, in Cilicia.
- cygnus — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way. The constellation contains the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, the intense radio galaxy Cygnus A, and the intense galactic X-ray source Cygnus X–1, which is probably a black hole
- dauncy — donsie.
- duncan — died 1040, king of Scotland 1030–40: murdered by Macbeth.