6-letter words containing n, u
- cucina — style of cooking; cuisine
- cudden — a coalfish
- cue in — to add (dialogue, music, etc.) at a particular point in a script
- cueing — Present participle of cue.
- cuenca — a city in SW Ecuador: university (1868). Pop: 311 000 (2005 est)
- cuffin — a man; chap
- culion — an island of the Philippines, in the W part of the group, N of Palawan. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km).
- cullen — William Douglas, Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
- cullin — (protein) Any of a family of proteins that have a role in protein degradation and ubiquitinylation.
- culmen — the summit
- cumana — a city in NE Venezuela: founded in 1523; the oldest European settlement in South America. Pop: 271 000 (2005 est)
- cumene — a colorless and toxic liquid, C 9 H 12 , soluble in alcohol: used as a solvent and in the production of phenol and acetone.
- cummin — Alternative spelling of cumin.
- cunard — Sir Samuel (1787–1865). Canadian shipping magnate, founder of the Cunard line
- cunaxa — the site near the lower Euphrates where Artaxerxes II defeated Cyrus the Younger in 401 bc
- cuneal — wedge-shaped; cuneiform
- cunene — a river in W central Angola, flowing S and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 750 miles (1207 km) long.
- cuneus — a small wedge-shaped area of the cerebral cortex
- cunner — a fish (Crenilabrus melops) of the wrasse family found in British coastal areas
- cupman — a drinking companion
- curing — the process of preserving food
- curnow — (Thomas) Allen (Monro). 1911–2001, New Zealand poet and anthologist
- curran — a currant
- curtin — John Joseph. 1885–1945, Australian statesman; prime minister of Australia (1941–45)
- curzon — Sir Clifford. 1907–82, English pianist
- cut in — If you cut in on someone, you interrupt them when they are speaking.
- cut-in — Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity: We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.
- cutins — Plural form of cutin.
- cydnus — a river in SE Asia Minor, in Cilicia.
- cygnus — a constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way. The constellation contains the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, the intense radio galaxy Cygnus A, and the intense galactic X-ray source Cygnus X–1, which is probably a black hole
- damnum — (legal) harm; detriment.
- danaus — a king of Argos who told his fifty daughters, the Danaides, to kill their bridegrooms on their wedding night
- danube — a river in central and SE Europe, rising in the Black Forest in Germany and flowing to the Black Sea. Length: 2859 km (1776 miles)
- dauncy — donsie.
- dauner — an amble or walk
- daunts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of daunt.
- daunus — father of Euippe, second wife of Diomedes.
- debunk — If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
- defund — to remove the funds from (a person, organization, or scheme)
- degunk — (informal, transitive) To remove gunk from.
- dengue — an acute viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, characterized by headache, fever, pains in the joints, and skin rash
- denude — To denude an area means to destroy the plants in it.
- detenu — prisoner
- detune — to change the pitch of (a stringed instrument), whether for musical or maintenance purposes
- deturn — (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- deurne — a town in N Belgium, a suburb of E Antwerp: site of Antwerp airport. Pop: 68 308 (2002 est)
- deuton — deuteron.
- dhurna — (in India) the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until death or until the demand is granted.
- dinful — noisy
- dingus — a gadget, device, or object whose name is unknown or forgotten.