8-letter words containing u, n, s
- buginese — a member of a Muslim people inhabiting the southern part of Sulawesi.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- burleson — a city in N Texas.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus lane — A bus lane is a part of the road which is intended to be used only by buses.
- bus line — the route of a bus or buses.
- bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
- buskined — relating to tragic drama
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- busulfan — a drug used to treat cancer
- busyness — the quality or condition of being busy.
- butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
- by turns — You can use by turns to indicate that someone has two particular emotions or qualities, one after the other.
- cannulas — Plural form of cannula.
- canorous — tuneful; melodious
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- carneous — fleshy
- casaubon — Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- censured — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censurer — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- censures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of censure.
- censused — an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
- censuses — Plural form of census.
- centaurs — Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
- cernuous — (of some flowers or buds) drooping
- chausson — Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1855–99, French composer.
- cheshunt — a town in SE England, in SE Hertfordshire: a dormitory town of London. Pop: 55 275 (2001)
- chesnutt — Charles Waddell [wo-del] /wɒˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1858–1932, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
- chisinau — the capital of Moldova on the Bîk River: manufacturing centre of a rich agricultural region; university (1945). Pop: 662 000 (2005 est)
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- chousing — Present participle of chouse.
- chunders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunder.
- chunters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chunter.
- churners — Plural form of churner.
- chutneys — Plural form of chutney.
- cicinnus — a scorpioid cyme
- circinus — a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere close to Centaurus and the Southern Cross
- cislunar — of or relating to the space between the earth and the moon