9-letter words containing un
- 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.
- juneating — an early-season apple
- juneberry — the American serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- junglegym — climbing frame for children
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- 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.
- junk bond — any corporate bond with a low rating and a high yield, often involving high risk.
- junk call — a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.
- junk food — food, as potato chips or candy, that is high in calories but of little nutritional value.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- junk room — a room in a house that is used as a store room
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- junkerdom — the Junkers as a group.
- junkerism — the spirit or policy of the Junkers.
- junketeer — a person who goes on junkets, especially regularly or habitually: weekend junketeers to Las Vegas.
- junketing — Present participle of junket.
- junkiness — the quality or state of being littered with junk
- junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
- junoesque — (of a woman) stately; regal.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kennebunk — a town in SW Maine, near resorts.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- kowabunga — Alternative form of cowabunga.
- kundalini — the vital force lying dormant within one until activated by the practice of yoga, which leads one toward spiritual power and eventual salvation.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kwangtung — Older Spelling. Guangdong.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- la laguna — city in Tenerife, Canary Islands: pop. 128,000
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- launching — Present participle of launch.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- laundered — Simple past tense and past participle of launder.
- launderer — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- lewis gun — a light, air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun with a circular magazine, first used in World War I.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- lounsbury — Thomas Raynesford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1838–1915, U.S. linguist and educator.