9-letter words containing u, n, i, t
- junctions — Plural form of junction.
- juneating — an early-season apple
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- juniorate — a two-year course of study for a Jesuit novice in preparation for the course in philosophy.
- juniority — the state or fact of being junior in age, rank, standing, etc.
- junketing — Present participle of junket.
- justinian — (Flavius Anicius Justinianus"Justinian the Great") a.d. 483–565, Byzantine emperor 527–565.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kick turn — a turn from a stationary position in which a skier lifts one ski to a point where the heel is nearly at right angles to the snow, then faces the ski outward, sets it down in the direction to be turned, and swings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lenticule — one of many tiny cylindrical or spherical lens segments embossed on the surface of a film used in stereoscopic and color photography.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- linguists — Plural form of linguist.
- lingulate — formed like a tongue; ligulate.
- liquation — (metallurgy) The partial melting of a mixture of metals or ores in order to separate components.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- lithuania — a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic: an independent state 1918–40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 25,174 sq. mi. (65,200 sq. km). Capital: Vilnius.
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- long suit — Cards. the suit in which the most cards are held in a hand. (in bridge) a suit in which four or more cards are held in a hand.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- lunatical — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunations — Plural form of lunation.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- lunitidal — pertaining to the part of the tidal movement dependent upon the moon.
- lusitania — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- lustiness — The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
- luteinize — to produce corpora lutea in.
- lutenists — Plural form of lutenist.
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- manualist — an advocate of manualism.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- matutinal — pertaining to or occurring in the morning; early in the day.
- mauritian — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.