9-letter words containing u
- advoutrer — an adulterer
- aedoeagus — aedeagus.
- aegisthus — a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
- aeronauts — A traveler in a hot-air balloon, airship, or other flying craft.
- aeropause — the region of the upper atmosphere above which aircraft cannot fly
- aeropulse — a pulsejet engine
- aeschylus — ?525–?456 bc, Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, Prometheus Bound, and the trilogy of the Oresteia
- aethalium — a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.
- affatuate — (obsolete) To infatuate.
- affixture — an affixing or being affixed
- affluence — Affluence is the state of having a lot of money or a high standard of living.
- affluency — affluence (def 2).
- affluents — Plural form of affluent.
- affluenza — the guilt or lack of motivation experienced by people who have made or inherited large amounts of money
- affluxion — a streaming or flowing towards something
- after you — please go, enter, etc, before me
- after-run — the continued running of an internal-combustion engine after the ignition is switched off: Heavy carbon buildup can cause annoying engine after-run.
- age group — An age group is the people in a place or organization who were born during a particular period of time, for example all the people aged between 18 and 25.
- age-group — persons of approximately the same age and often of the same sex, nationality, educational or social background, etc.
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- agnus dei — the figure of a lamb bearing a cross or banner, emblematic of Christ
- aguadilla — a seaport in NW Puerto Rico.
- aguinaldo — Emilio [e-mee-lyaw] /ɛˈmi lyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1869–1964, Filipino leader during the Spanish-American war: opposed to U.S. occupation.
- agustin i — Itúrbide, Agustín de.
- ahasuerus — a king of ancient Persia and husband of Esther, generally identified with Xerxes
- ahungered — very hungry.
- ailanthus — an E Asian simaroubaceous deciduous tree, Ailanthus altissima, planted in Europe and North America, having pinnate leaves, small greenish flowers, and winged fruits
- air gauge — a gauge for measuring air pressure.
- air route — a designated route for aircraft flying between particular ground locations at specified minimum altitudes.
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- air-bound — stopped up by air.
- airbursts — Plural form of airburst.
- akoluthos — the title of a commander of a regiment in the Byzantine Varangian Guard
- akutagawa — Ryunosuke [ryoo-naw-soo-ke] /ryʊˈnɔ sʊˌkɛ/ (Show IPA), 1892–1927, Japanese short-story writer and essayist.
- al-fustat — a city in N Egypt, near the modern city of Cairo, founded in the 7th century a.d.
- alappuzha — a port in SW Kerala, in S India, on the Arabian Sea.
- albucasis — Abu al-Qāsim
- albuginea — (anatomy) A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
- alburnous — relating to alburnum
- albuterol — a bronchodilator used by sufferers of asthma, emphysema, and other lung conditions, to treat symptoms such as wheezing or shortness of breath
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aldeburgh — a small resort in SE England, in Suffolk: site of an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten. Pop: 2654 (2001)
- alehouses — Plural form of alehouse.
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- alexius i — (Alexius Comnenus) 1048-1118; emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1081-1118)
- algonquin — a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
- aliquippa — a borough in W Pennsylvania.
- aliquoted — Divided into, or distributed in aliquots.