6-letter words containing u, n, e
- centum — denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches
- cinque — the number five in cards, dice, etc
- clunge — (UK, vulgar, slang, mostly, internet) vagina.
- cohune — a tropical American feather palm, Attalea (or Orbignya) cohune, whose large oily nuts yield an oil similar to coconut oil
- comune — The smallest civil administrative unit in Italy.
- conque — Alternative spelling of conch.
- conure — any of various small American parrots of the genus Aratinga and related genera
- cruden — Alexander. 1701–70, Scottish bookseller and compiler of a well-known biblical concordance (1737)
- crumen — the suborbital gland in sheep, deer, or antelopes
- cubane — a rare octahedral hydrocarbon formed by eight CH groups, each of which is situated at the corner of a cube. Formula: C8H8
- 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)
- 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
- culmen — the summit
- 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.
- 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
- danube — a river in central and SE Europe, rising in the Black Forest in Germany and flowing to the Black Sea. Length: 2859 km (1776 miles)
- dauner — an amble or walk
- debunk — If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
- defund — to remove the funds from (a person, organization, or scheme)
- degunk — (informal, transitive) To remove gunk from.
- dengue — an acute viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, characterized by headache, fever, pains in the joints, and skin rash
- denude — To denude an area means to destroy the plants in it.
- detenu — prisoner
- detune — to change the pitch of (a stringed instrument), whether for musical or maintenance purposes
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deurne — a town in N Belgium, a suburb of E Antwerp: site of Antwerp airport. Pop: 68 308 (2002 est)
- deuton — deuteron.
- diuine — Obsolete spelling of divine.
- douane — a custom house; customs.
- driuen — Obsolete spelling of driven.
- drunke — Obsolete spelling of drunk.
- drusen — Plural form of druse.
- dudeen — a short clay tobacco pipe.
- duende — a goblin; demon; spirit.
- duenna — (in Spain and Portugal) an older woman serving as escort or chaperon of a young lady.
- dullen — (transitive, nonstandard) To make dull or duller; to dull.
- dunces — Plural form of dunce.
- dundee — a seaport in E Scotland, on the Firth of Tay: administrative center of the Tayside.
- dunder — the thick lees from boiled sugar-cane juice used in the distillation of rum.
- dunged — Simple past tense and past participle of dung.
- dunger — an old decrepit car
- dunite — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed almost entirely of olivine.
- dunked — Simple past tense and past participle of dunk.
- dunker — a member of the Church of the Brethren, a denomination of Christians founded in Germany in 1708 and later reorganized in the U.S., characterized by the practice of trine immersion, the celebration of a love feast accompanying the Lord's Supper, and opposition to the taking of oaths and to military service.