6-letter words containing u, n, e
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- lunged — a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- lungee — a cloth used as a turban, scarf, sarong, etc., in India, Pakistan, and Burma.
- lunger — a person or thing that lunges.
- lunges — Plural form of lunge.
- lungie — (UK, Scotland, dialect) A guillemot.
- lunker — something unusually large for its kind.
- lunner — A meal consumed between lunchtime and dinnertime, consisting of food items from the respective meals.
- lunted — a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- lunule — something shaped like a narrow crescent, as the small, pale area at the base of the fingernail.
- lupine — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Lupinus, of the legume family, as L. albus (white lupine) of Europe, bearing edible seeds, or L. perennis, of the eastern U.S., having tall, dense clusters of blue, pink, or white flowers.
- lusern — (obsolete) A lynx.
- lutein — Also called xanthophyll. a yellow-red, water-insoluble, crystalline, carotenoid alcohol, C 40 H 56 O 2 , found in the petals of marigold and certain other flowers, egg yolk, algae, and corpora lutea: used chiefly in the biochemical study of the carotenoids.
- lutzen — a town in E Germany, WSW of Leipzig: site of Gustavus Adolphus' victory over Wallenstein in 1632 and Napoleon's victory over the Russians in 1813.
- luzern — Lucerne.
- manque — having failed, missed, or fallen short, especially because of circumstances or a defect of character; unsuccessful; unfulfilled or frustrated (usually used postpositively): a poet manqué who never produced a single book of verse.
- manuel — a male given name.
- manure — excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
- mckuen — Rod, 1933–2015, U.S. poet and songwriter.
- menchu — Rigoberta [ree-guh-ber-tuh] /ˌri gəˈbɛr tə/ (Show IPA), born 1959, Guatemalan author and social reformer: Nobel prize 1992.
- mentum — Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- menudo — a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy.
- mequon — a town in E Wisconsin.
- mifune — Toshiro [tuh-sheer-oh;; Japanese taw-shee-raw] /təˈʃɪər oʊ;; Japanese tɔˈʃi rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1920–97, Japanese film actor, born in China.
- mimune — Member of the Institution of Municipal Engineers
- minuet — a slow, stately dance in triple meter, popular in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- mourne — The armed or feruled end of a staff.
- mudhen — any of various birds that frequent marshes or similar places, esp the coots, rails, etc
- muggen — (UK dialectal, Northern England) Made of earthenware in contradistinction to china, metal, wood, etc.
- mukden — a former name of Shenyang.
- mullen — any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
- muncie — a city in E Indiana.
- munite — to fortify.
- munroe — Charles Edward, 1849–1938, U.S. chemist.
- munsee — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
- munsey — Frank Andrew, 1854–1925, U.S. publisher.
- munted — (British, slang) Drunk.
- munter — (British, slang, pejorative) An ugly person.
- murein — Peptidoglycan, mucopeptide.
- murine — belonging or pertaining to the Muridae, the family of rodents that includes the mice and rats.
- mutein — a mutationally altered protein.
- mutine — a rebel; mutineer
- naevus — (anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin. Naevi may be congenital or acquired. This term is reserved for benign skin lesions.
- nasute — a soldier termite characterized by a beaklike snout through which a sticky secretion repellent to other insects is emitted.
- nature — has the X nature
- nausea — sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit.
- nautes — (in the Aeneid) an aged Trojan and advisor to Aeneas.
- nebula — Astronomy. Also called diffuse nebula. a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Compare dark nebula, emission nebula, reflection nebula. (formerly) any celestial object that appears nebulous, hazy, or fuzzy, and extended in a telescope view.
- nebule — (obsolete) A little cloud.