10-letter words containing a, d, u, l
- gullstrand — Allvar [ahl-vahr] /ˈɑl vɑr/ (Show IPA), 1862–1930, Swedish oculist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1911.
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- head louse — See under louse (def 1).
- heulandite — a white or transparent, colorless mineral of the zeolite family, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 7 O 18 ⋅6H 2 O, occurring in basic volcanic rocks in the form of crystals with a pearly luster.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.
- illaudable — unworthy of praise; not laudable.
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- includable — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- inculcated — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- induceable — Capable of being induced.
- industrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- ineducable — incapable of being educated, especially because of some condition, as mental retardation or emotional disturbance.
- injudicial — lacking judgement; injudicious
- inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- judgmental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- judiciable — judicable.
- judicially — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- keelhauled — Simple past tense and past participle of keelhaul.
- kurt alder — Kurt [kurt;; German koo rt] /kɜrt;; German kʊərt/ (Show IPA), 1902–58, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1950.
- la guardia — Fiorello H(enry) [fee-uh-rel-oh] /ˌfi əˈrɛl oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1947, U.S. lawyer, political reformer, and government administrator: mayor of New York City 1933–45.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- lamivudine — (medicine) A nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor, 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-thiacytidine that is used for the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landlubber — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- latifundia — a great estate.
- latifundio — a great estate of Latin America or Spain.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- launch pad — 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.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- laundrette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.