7-letter words containing u, n, e, c
- confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- confute — to prove (a person or thing) wrong, invalid, or mistaken; disprove
- congrue — to agree
- conjure — If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic.
- conquer — If one country or group of people conquers another, they take complete control of their land.
- conspue — to spit on with contempt
- consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- contuse — to injure (the body) without breaking the skin; bruise
- cornute — having or resembling cornua; hornlike
- counsel — Counsel is advice.
- counted — Simple past tense and past participle of count.
- counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
- crubeen — a pig's trotter, esp one that has been cooked
- crunked — excited or intoxicated
- crunkle — (UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
- crunode — a point at which two branches of a curve intersect, each branch having a distinct tangent; node
- crutzen — Paul, born 1933, Dutch meteorologist and chemist: Nobel Prize 1995.
- 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)
- cuisine — The cuisine of a country or district is the style of cooking that is characteristic of that place.
- cum new — (of shares, etc) with rights to take up any scrip or rights issue
- cumaean — of Cumae
- cumbent — lying down; recumbent
- cuneate — wedge-shaped: cuneate leaves are attached at the narrow end
- cunette — a small trench dug in the main ditch of a fortification, acting as both a drain and an obstacle to attackers
- current — A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.
- cutline — a caption accompanying an illustration
- decuman — a huge wave
- defunct — If something is defunct, it no longer exists or has stopped functioning or operating.
- doucine — a type of moulding of the cornice
- drucken — drunken
- duncery — the characteristic behaviour or the state of being a dunce or a dullard
- durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
- echinus — any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
- ecumene — (obsolete) All known inhabited areas of the world.
- educand — Someone who is to be, or is being educated.
- educing — Present participle of educe.
- encloud — to hide with clouds; to darken
- enclude — Obsolete form of include.
- encrust — Cover (something) with a hard surface layer.
- enounce — To say or pronounce; to enunciate.
- esculin — (organic compound) A coumarin glucoside which exists in horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), prickly box (Bursaria spinosa) and in daphnin (the dark green resin of Daphne mezereum).
- eucaine — a crystalline optically active substance formerly used as a local anaesthetic. Formula: C15H21NO2
- eugenic — Of or relating to eugenics.
- eunuchs — Plural form of eunuch.
- eupneic — Characterized by eupnea; possessing healthy breathing.
- flounce — to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements: The star flounced out of the studio in a rage.
- fluence — A stream of particles crossing a unit area, usually expressed as the number of particles per second.
- fluency — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- frounce — A form of trichomoniasis affecting hawks, resulting in a sore with a cheesy secretion in the mouth or throat.
- funicle — the stalk of an ovule or seed.