8-letter words containing NU
Embark on an exploration of 8-letter words that contain the letter NU. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate NU within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| continue | 10 | continue a certain state, condition, or activity | We continued to work into the night |
| nuisance | 10 | a bothersome annoying person | - |
| numerous | 10 | amounting to a large indefinite number | numerous times |
| monument | 12 | a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | - |
| doughnut | 13 | a toroidal shape | - |
| platinum | 12 | a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits | - |
| aluminum | 12 | a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | - |
| knuckles | 18 | (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | - |
| manually | 13 | by hand | this car shifts manually |
| chestnut | 13 | any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | - |
| nuthouse | 11 | pejorative terms for an insane asylum | - |
| nutshell | 11 | the shell around the kernel of a nut | - |
| nurtured | 9 | - | - |
| annually | 11 | by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | - |
| annulled | 9 | - | - |
| terminus | 10 | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome | - |
| innuendo | 9 | an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | - |
| numbness | 12 | the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | - |
| nutrient | 8 | of or providing nourishment | - |
| laudanum | 11 | narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | - |
| hazelnut | 20 | any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | - |
| nuptials | 10 | the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | - |
| snuggled | 11 | drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection | like a baby snuggled in its mother's arms |
| unusable | 10 | not capable of being used | - |
| numskull | 14 | a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | - |
| biannual | 10 | occurring or payable twice each year | - |
| duodenum | 12 | the part of the small intestine between the stomach and the jejunum | - |
| snuffles | 14 | - | - |
| benumbed | 15 | lacking sensation | - |
| inundate | 9 | fill or cover completely, usually with water | - |
| minutiae | 10 | - | - |
| minutely | 13 | in minute detail | our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses |
| snubbing | 13 | - | - |
| snuffbox | 23 | a small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket | - |
| granular | 9 | composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | granular sugar |
| continua | 10 | - | - |
| unuseful | 11 | - | - |
| penumbra | 14 | a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
| knuckler | 18 | a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | - |
| nonunion | 8 | not belonging to or not allowing affiliation with a trade union | nonunion carpenters |
| nuthatch | 16 | any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | - |
| cocoanut | 12 | large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | - |
| snuggery | 13 | a small secluded room | - |
| manuring | 11 | - | - |
| nugatory | 12 | of no real value | a nugatory law |
| ununbium | 12 | a radioactive transuranic element | - |
| ununited | 9 | - | - |
| unusably | 13 | - | - |
| vaginula | 12 | - | - |
| vaginule | 12 | - | - |
| wharenui | 14 | - | - |
| zonulets | 17 | - | - |
| xenurine | 15 | - | - |
| venulose | 11 | - | - |
| venulous | 11 | - | - |
| viburnum | 15 | deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees: arrow-wood; wayfaring tree | - |
| veinules | 11 | - | - |
| veinulet | 11 | - | - |
| submenus | 12 | - | - |
| subgenus | 11 | (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species | - |
| tauhinus | 11 | - | - |
| tenuious | 8 | - | - |
| tenurial | 8 | - | - |
| tenuring | 9 | - | - |
| thumbnut | 15 | a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | - |
| timpanum | 14 | - | - |
| tournure | 8 | - | - |
| tympanum | 17 | a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | - |
| uninured | 9 | - | - |
| spinules | 10 | - | - |
| spinulae | 10 | - | - |
| sternums | 10 | - | - |
| stannums | 10 | - | - |
| ritenuto | 8 | (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | - |
| revenues | 11 | - | - |
| revenuer | 11 | a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
| revenual | 11 | - | - |
| revenued | 12 | - | - |
| scalenus | 10 | any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing | - |
| seminude | 11 | partially clothed | - |
| sinuated | 9 | - | - |
| sinuates | 8 | - | - |
| sinuitis | 8 | - | - |
| sinusoid | 9 | the curve of y=sin x | - |
| solanums | 10 | - | - |
| snugness | 9 | a state of warm snug comfort | - |
| snushing | 12 | - | - |
| snuzzled | 27 | - | - |
| snuzzles | 26 | - | - |
| snuggles | 10 | - | - |
| snuffing | 15 | - | - |
| snuffled | 15 | - | - |
| snuffler | 14 | a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) | - |
| snuggest | 10 | - | - |
| snuggies | 10 | - | - |
| snugging | 11 | - | - |
| snuffily | 17 | - | - |
| snuffier | 14 | - | - |
| snubbers | 12 | - | - |
| snubbier | 12 | - | - |
| snubbish | 15 | - | - |
| snubness | 10 | - | - |
| snudging | 11 | - | - |
| snuffers | 14 | scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick | - |
| sphagnum | 16 | any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | - |
| renumber | 12 | - | - |
| retinued | 9 | - | - |
| retinues | 8 | - | - |
| retinula | 8 | - | - |
| parvenue | 13 | characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | - |
| parvenus | 13 | - | - |
| pannuses | 10 | - | - |
| penuches | 15 | - | - |
| penuchis | 15 | - | - |
| penuchle | 15 | a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | - |
| penuckle | 16 | - | - |
| penuries | 10 | - | - |
| planulae | 10 | - | - |
| planular | 10 | - | - |
| planuria | 10 | - | - |
| pinnulae | 10 | - | - |
| pinnular | 10 | - | - |
| pinnulas | 10 | - | - |
| pinnules | 10 | - | - |
| prunuses | 10 | - | - |
| pulvinus | 13 | - | - |
| quidnunc | 20 | a person who meddles in the affairs of others | - |
| pandanus | 11 | any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | - |
| paenulae | 10 | - | - |
| paenulas | 10 | - | - |
| anureses | 8 | - | - |
| anuresis | 8 | inability to urinate | - |
| anuretic | 10 | of or relating to an inability to urinate | - |
| annulose | 8 | - | - |
| annulets | 8 | - | - |
| annulars | 8 | - | - |
| annulate | 8 | shaped like a ring | - |
| antinuke | 12 | - | - |
| arcanums | 12 | - | - |
| beechnut | 15 | small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
| bimanual | 12 | requiring two hands or designed for two people | a machine designed for bimanual operation |
| betelnut | 10 | - | - |
| breadnut | 11 | - | - |
| alburnum | 12 | - | - |
| earthnut | 11 | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | - |
| enureses | 8 | - | - |
| enuresis | 8 | inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination | - |
| enuretic | 10 | - | - |
| epigonus | 11 | - | - |
| ennuying | 12 | - | - |
| erinuses | 8 | - | - |
| exonumia | 17 | - | - |
| faunulae | 11 | - | - |
| faunules | 11 | - | - |
| fenurons | 11 | - | - |
| fraenums | 13 | - | - |
| frenular | 11 | - | - |
| frenulum | 13 | - | - |
| galbanum | 13 | a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida | - |
| gallnuts | 9 | - | - |
| disannul | 9 | - | - |
| disinure | 9 | - | - |
| donutted | 10 | - | - |
| grownups | 14 | - | - |
| granules | 9 | - | - |
| hanukiah | 18 | - | - |
| hanumans | 13 | - | - |
| hemionus | 13 | - | - |
| hokonuis | 15 | - | - |
| inconnue | 10 | - | - |
| inconnus | 10 | - | - |
| imminute | 12 | - | - |
| ingenues | 9 | - | - |
| inukshuk | 19 | - | - |
| inulases | 8 | - | - |
| inundant | 9 | - | - |
| inurbane | 10 | - | - |
| inurning | 9 | - | - |
| inustion | 8 | - | - |
| knurlier | 12 | - | - |
| knurling | 13 | - | - |
| knubbier | 16 | - | - |
| knubbled | 17 | - | - |
| knubbles | 16 | - | - |
| knuckled | 19 | - | - |
| labdanum | 13 | a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | - |
| laburnum | 12 | flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous | - |
| ladanums | 11 | - | - |
| gerenuks | 13 | - | - |
| glucinum | 13 | - | - |
| lunulate | 8 | - | - |
| manurial | 10 | - | - |
| manubria | 12 | - | - |
| manuhiri | 13 | - | - |
| manumeas | 12 | - | - |
| manumits | 12 | - | - |
| manurers | 10 | - | - |
| minutial | 10 | - | - |
| minuting | 11 | - | - |
| minutest | 10 | - | - |
| minuends | 11 | - | - |
| monurons | 10 | - | - |
| nenuphar | 13 | - | - |
| nonuples | 10 | - | - |
| nonuplet | 10 | - | - |
| nonurban | 10 | - | - |
| nonusers | 8 | - | - |
| nonusing | 9 | - | - |
| nuancing | 11 | - | - |
| nuclease | 10 | general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
| nucleate | 10 | having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | nucleated cells |
| nucleide | 11 | - | - |
| nucleins | 10 | - | - |
| nucleoid | 11 | - | - |
| nucleole | 10 | a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | - |
| nucleoli | 10 | - | - |
| nucleons | 10 | - | - |
| nucellus | 10 | central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
| nucellar | 10 | - | - |
| nubbiest | 12 | - | - |
| nubblier | 12 | - | - |
| nubbling | 13 | - | - |
| nubecula | 12 | - | - |
| nubiform | 15 | - | - |
| nubility | 13 | - | - |
| nubilose | 10 | - | - |
| nubilous | 10 | - | - |
| nuclides | 11 | - | - |
| nurturer | 8 | - | - |
| nutmeals | 10 | - | - |
| nutmeats | 10 | - | - |
| nutmeggy | 15 | - | - |
| nutpicks | 16 | - | - |
| nutsedge | 10 | a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | - |
| nutsiest | 8 | - | - |
| nurtures | 8 | - | - |
| nutarian | 8 | - | - |
| nutating | 9 | - | - |
| nutation | 8 | uncontrolled nodding | - |
| nutbrown | 13 | of the color of nuts | nutbrown hair |
| nutcases | 10 | - | - |
| nutgalls | 9 | - | - |
| nutgrass | 9 | a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | - |
| nuttiest | 8 | - | - |
| nuttings | 9 | - | - |
| nutwoods | 12 | - | - |
| nuzzlers | 26 | - | - |
| nuzzling | 27 | - | - |
| nuclidic | 13 | - | - |
| nullness | 8 | - | - |
| numbered | 13 | - | - |
| numberer | 12 | - | - |
| numbfish | 18 | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | - |
| numchuck | 21 | - | - |
| numeracy | 15 | skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
| numerals | 10 | - | - |
| nullings | 9 | - | - |
| nudation | 9 | - | - |
| nudeness | 9 | the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | - |
| nudicaul | 11 | - | - |
| nudities | 9 | - | - |
| nudnicks | 15 | - | - |
| nudzhing | 22 | - | - |
| nuggeted | 11 | - | - |
| numerary | 13 | - | - |
| numerate | 10 | determine the number or amount of | - |
| numerics | 12 | - | - |
| nunhoods | 12 | - | - |
| nunships | 13 | - | - |
| nuraghic | 14 | - | - |
| nurdiest | 9 | - | - |
| nurdling | 10 | - | - |
| nursings | 9 | - | - |
| nursling | 9 | an infant considered in relation to its nurse | - |
| nundines | 9 | - | - |
| nundinal | 9 | - | - |
| numinous | 10 | evincing the presence of a deity | a numinous wood |
| nummular | 12 | - | - |
| numpties | 12 | - | - |
| nunataks | 12 | - | - |
| nunchaku | 17 | - | - |
| nuncheon | 13 | - | - |
| nurtural | 8 | resulting from nurture | - |
| origanum | 11 | any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
| organums | 11 | - | - |
| olibanum | 12 | an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | - |
| locknuts | 14 | - | - |
| linurons | 8 | - | - |
| cernuous | 10 | having branches or flower heads that bend downward | - |
| chesnuts | 13 | - | - |
| cleanups | 12 | - | - |
| cicinnus | 12 | - | - |
| coconuts | 12 | - | - |
| coenurus | 10 | - | - |
| coenures | 10 | - | - |
| clonuses | 10 | - | - |
| cokernut | 14 | - | - |
| cornutos | 10 | - | - |
| cornutes | 10 | - | - |
| cornuses | 10 | - | - |
| cornuted | 11 | - | - |
| continuo | 10 | a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | - |
| conurban | 12 | - | - |
| conurbia | 12 | - | - |
| cyanuret | 13 | - | - |
| detenues | 9 | - | - |
| detinues | 9 | - | - |
| denuding | 11 | - | - |
| denuders | 10 | - | - |
| denudate | 10 | lay bare | - |
| canulate | 10 | introduce a cannula or tube into | - |
| cannulae | 10 | - | - |
| cannular | 10 | constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | - |
| cannulas | 10 | - | - |
| minueted | 11 | - | - |
| nubbings | 13 | - | - |
| numbhead | 16 | - | - |
| numbnuts | 12 | - | - |
| nummiest | 12 | - | - |
| numpkins | 16 | - | - |
| nunchuck | 19 | - | - |
| nunchuks | 17 | - | - |
| manucode | 13 | - | - |
| pilinuts | 10 | - | - |
| peanutty | 13 | - | - |
| cyanuric | 15 | - | - |
| jejunums | 24 | - | - |
| inuksuit | 12 | - | - |
| inuksuks | 16 | - | - |
| enurning | 9 | - | - |
| snubbest | 12 | - | - |
| wingnuts | 12 | - | - |
| beernuts | 10 | - | - |
| bonusses | 10 | - | - |
| bonussed | 11 | - | - |
| bonusing | 11 | - | - |
