9-letter words containing u, t, r, n
- introitus — (medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
- intruders — Plural form of intruder.
- intruding — Present participle of intrude.
- intrusion — Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
- intrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intrusted — entrust.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- inurement — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
- inurnment — to put into an urn, especially ashes after cremation.
- investure — (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- irrupting — Present participle of irrupt.
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- ivory nut — the seed of a low, South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, yielding vegetable ivory.
- jargonaut — Someone who uses jargon excessively.
- jointures — Plural form of jointure.
- jumbotron — A very large video screen, typically used in a stadium or concert venue to show close-up shots.
- jump turn — a turn in which a skier plants one or both poles in the snow in advance of the forward ski, bends close to the ground, and pivots in the air around the pole or poles.
- junctural — of or relating to phonological juncture.
- junctures — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- 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.
- junketeer — a person who goes on junkets, especially regularly or habitually: weekend junketeers to Las Vegas.
- jutlander — a peninsula comprising the continental portion of Denmark: naval battle between the British and German fleets was fought west of this peninsula 1916. 11,441 sq. mi. (29,630 sq. km).
- ketonuria — the presence of ketone bodies in the urine.
- 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.
- knurl toe — French foot (def 1).
- 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).
- landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lubricant — a substance, as oil or grease, for lessening friction, especially in the working parts of a mechanism.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- lunarnaut — an astronaut who travels or has travelled to the moon
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- lyndhurst — a township in NE New Jersey.
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- martineau — Harriet, 1802–76, English novelist and economist.
- mauritian — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- menstruum — a solvent.
- mensurate — (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, lattitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- miniature — a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- mockernut — a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.