7-letter words containing u, n, c
- cernuda — Luis (lwiʃ). 1902–63, Spanish poet. His major work is the autobiographical Reality and Desire (1936–64)
- cerumen — the soft brownish-yellow wax secreted by glands in the auditory canal of the external ear
- chanoyu — a Japanese ceremony at which tea is prepared, served, and taken with an ancient and involved ritual.
- chanute — a town in SE Kansas.
- chaunce — Archaic spelling of chance.
- chaunge — Obsolete form of change.
- chauvin — a chauvinist
- cheneau — an ornamented cresting on a cornice or coping.
- chengdu — a city in S central China, capital of Sichuan province. Pop: 3 478 000 (2005 est)
- chengtu — Chengdu
- chesnut — Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
- chillun — (Southern US, AAVE) Plural form of chile (child).
- chilung — a port in N Taiwan: fishing and industrial centre. Pop: 406 000 (2005 est)
- chin-up — an exercise in which a person grips an elevated bar and pulls himself or herself up until the chin is level with the bar
- chongju — a city in central South Korea.
- chunder — to vomit
- chungju — a city in central South Korea.
- chungke — Alternative form of chunkey.
- chunjie — an annual Chinese festival marking the (lunar) Chinese New Year. It can last over three days and includes the exchange of gifts, firework displays, and dancing
- chunked — a thick mass or lump of anything: a chunk of bread; a chunk of firewood.
- chunker — (programming) A program like Unix's "split" which breaks an input file into parts, usually of a pre-set size, e.g. the maximum size that can fit on a floppy. The parts can then be assembled with a dechunker, which is usually just the chunker in a different mode.
- chunkey — A sport or game played by the Cherokee and other Native Americans in the Carolinas, which involved rolling stone disks across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible.
- chunnel — a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking England and France, opened in 1994
- chunnis — Plural form of chunni.
- chunter — to mutter or grumble incessantly in a meaningless fashion
- churban — the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, first by the Babylonians in 587 bc and again by the Romans in 70 ad
- churned — a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
- churner — a container or machine in which cream or milk is agitated to make butter.
- chusing — Present participle of chuse.
- chutnee — a sauce or relish of East Indian origin, often compounded of both sweet and sour ingredients, as fruits and herbs, with spices and other seasoning.
- chutney — Chutney is a cold sauce made from fruit, vinegar, sugar, and spices. It is sold in jars and you eat it with meat or cheese.
- cinques — Plural form of cinque.
- cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
- cliburn — Van [van] /væn/ (Show IPA), (Harvey Lavan Cliburn, Jr) 1934–2013, U.S. pianist.
- clubman — a man who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubmen — Plural form of clubman.
- clue in — anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
- clueing — Present participle of clue.
- cluniac — of or relating to a reformed Benedictine order founded at the French town of Cluny in 910
- clunked — Simple past tense and past participle of clunk.
- clunker — If you describe a machine, especially a car, as a clunker, you mean that it is very old and almost falling apart.
- clurman — Harold (Edgar) 1901–80, U.S. theatrical director, author, and critic.
- cnossus — Knossos
- cobnuts — Plural form of cobnut.
- coconut — A coconut is a very large nut with a hairy shell, which has white flesh and milky juice inside it.
- cofound — to found jointly
- cohunes — a pinnate-leaved palm, Orbignya cohune, native to Central America, bearing large nuts whose meat yields an oil resembling that of the coconut.
- coilgun — Any of various devices that use electromagnets to accelerate a magnetic projectile via non contact means.
- colonus — (in ancient Rome) a farmer
- columns — Plural form of column.