4-letter words containing un
- lund — a city in SE Sweden, northeast of Malmö: founded in about 1020 by the Danish King Canute; the archbishopric for all Scandinavia in the Middle Ages; university (1668). Pop: 101 427 (2004 est)
- lune — a line for securing a hawk.
- lung — either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- lunk — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- luny — lunatic; insane.
- maun — must
- moun — (intransitive, obsolete) To be able to; may; must.
- mund — (obsolete) A hand.
- mung — something disgusting or offensive, especially filth or muck.
- muni — municipal; operated by a municipal government: a muni bus company.
- muns — Plural form of mun.
- munt — (Rhodesia, slang, originally military, pejorative, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person, usually a man.
- muny — municipal; operated by a municipal government: a muni bus company.
- noun — any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group. See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase. Synonyms: substantive, name.
- nunc — now.
- nunn — Sir Trevor (Robert). born 1940, British theatre director; artistic director (1968–86) and chief executive (1968–86) of the Royal Shakespeare Company; artistic director of the Royal National Theatre (1997–2003). His productions include Nicholas Nickleby (1980), Cats (1981), and Les Misérables (1985)
- nuns — Plural form of nun.
- nunu — (South Africa) a weevil (or similar insect).
- ogun — a state of SW Nigeria. Capital: Abeokuta. Pop: 3 728 098 (2006). Area: 16 762 sq km (6472 sq miles)
- ouns — (archaic, dialectal) Wounds, especially the wounds of Christ on the cross.
- puna — a high, cold, arid plateau, as in the Peruvian Andes.
- pune — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
- pung — a sleigh with a boxlike body.
- punk — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- puns — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- punt — an ancient Egyptian name of an area not absolutely identified but believed to be Somaliland.
- puny — of less than normal size and strength; weak.
- raun — fish roe or spawn
- rune — a poem, song, or verse.
- rung — simple past tense and past participle of ring2 .
- runt — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- ryun — James Ronald ("Jim") born 1947, U.S. distance runner; congressman 1996–2007.
- shun — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- spun — a simple past tense and past participle of spin.
- stun — to deprive of consciousness or strength by or as if by a blow, fall, etc.: The blow to his jaw stunned him for a moment.
- sung — a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
- suni — a small South African antelope, Neotragus moschatus
- sunk — a simple past tense and past participle of sink.
- sunn — a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- suny — State University of New York
- thun — a city in central Switzerland, on the Aar River, near the Lake of Thun.
- toun — a town
- tuna — any of several large food and game fishes of the family Scombridae, inhabiting temperate and tropical seas. Compare albacore, bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna.
- tund — to beat or hit (someone or something)
- tune — Thomas James ("Tommy") born 1939, U.S. dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and director.
- tuny — having an easily discernable melody
- un*x — (operating system, convention) Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography. Also used to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems. Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the TM-postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow. It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of the deity is never written out in full, e.g. "YHWH" or "G--d" is used. See also glob.
- unau — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
- unbe — to (cause to) lack existence