8-letter words containing u, n, s
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- dubbings — Plural form of dubbing.
- dubinsky — David, 1892–1982, U.S. labor leader, born in Poland: president of the I.L.G.W.U. 1932–66.
- duckpins — Plural form of duckpin.
- dudgeons — Plural form of dudgeon.
- dullness — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumpings — Plural form of dumping.
- dungeons — Plural form of dungeon.
- dunnarts — Plural form of dunnart.
- duopsony — the market condition that exists when there are only two buyers.
- duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- dushanbe — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- dust gun — a hand-operated device for spraying pesticide or dusting plants.
- dustbins — Plural form of dustbin.
- dustings — Plural form of dusting.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- effusing — Present participle of effuse.
- effusion — the act of effusing or pouring forth.
- elenchus — A logical refutation.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- en suite — bathroom: adjoining room
- enamours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enamour.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- end user — consumer
- end-user — (job) The person who uses a computer application, as opposed to those who developed or support it. The end-user may or may not know anything about computers, how they work, or what to do if something goes wrong. End-users do not usually have administrative responsibilities or privileges. End users are certain to have a different set of assumptions than the developers who created the application.
- enginous — ingenious or clever
- enormous — very big
- enqueues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enqueue.
- enquires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enquire.
- enshroud — Envelop completely and hide from view.
- ensouled — Simple past tense and past participle of ensoul.
- ensuites — Plural form of ensuite.
- ensuring — Present participle of ensure.
- entellus — A small Asian monkey, Presbytis entellus, having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face.
- enthused — Past participle of enthuse.
- enthuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enthuse.
- entrusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrust.
- enuresis — Involuntary urination, especially by children at night.
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- esculent — Fit to be eaten; edible.
- esurient — Hungry or greedy.
- etruscan — a member of an ancient people of central Italy whose civilization influenced the Romans, who had suppressed them by about 200 bc
- eudemons — Plural form of eudemon.
- eugenics — The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.