9-letter words containing u, n, r, s
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- misnumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- misruling — Present participle of misrule.
- monsieurs — Plural form of monsieur.
- monstrous — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- mournings — Plural form of mourning.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- murkiness — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- mustanger — a person who engages in mustanging.
- muster in — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- mustering — Present participle of muster.
- mutineers — A person, esp. a soldier or sailor, who rebels or refuses to obey the orders of a person in authority.
- mycerinus — king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at ·El· Giza.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- naturists — Plural form of naturist.
- naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- nebuliser — Alternative spelling of nebulizer.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nefarious — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- neuristor — a microelectronic fiberlike device used in information processing.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neustrian — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrinos — Plural form of neutrino.
- new sarum — a city in S England, in SE Wiltshire: nearby Old Sarum was the site of an Early Iron Age hill fort; its cathedral (1220–58) has the highest spire in England. Pop: 43 355 (2001)
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- ngultrums — Plural form of ngultrum.
- no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- nonjurors — Plural form of nonjuror.
- nonparous — having borne no children.
- nonporous — full of pores.
- norovirus — any of various single-stranded RNA viruses of the genus Norovirus, of the family Caliciviridae: the most common cause of epidemic viral gastroenteritis in humans.
- noseguard — middle guard.
- nosferatu — Alternative form of Nosferatu.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- notorious — widely and unfavorably known: a notorious gambler. Synonyms: infamous, egregious, outrageous, arrant, flagrant, disreputable.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- nuisancer — a person that creates a nuisance or public offence
- numberous — Obsolete form of numerous.
- numerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of numerate.