7-letter words containing a, l, u
- audible — A sound that is audible is loud enough to be heard.
- audibly — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
- augural — the art or practice of an augur; divination.
- aurally — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing.
- aurelia — any large jellyfish of the order Acalephae
- aureola — a radiance surrounding the head or the whole figure in the representation of a sacred personage.
- aureole — (esp in paintings of Christian saints and the deity) a border of light or radiance enveloping the head or sometimes the whole of a figure represented as holy
- auricle — the upper chamber of the heart; atrium
- auroral — of or like the dawn.
- ausable — a river in NE New York, flowing NE through a gorge (Ausable Chasm) into Lake Champlain. 20 miles (32 km) long.
- auscult — To auscultate.
- auslaut — final position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
- auslese — a white wine, usually sweet, produced in Germany from individually selected bunches of very ripe grapes
- austral — of or coming from the south
- auteuil — a former town, now part of Paris, France: noted for residences of Boileau, Talleyrand, Molière, La Fontaine, and other eminent people.
- avulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of avulse.
- awfully — in an unpleasant, bad, or reprehensible manner
- azulejo — a Portuguese or Spanish painted ceramic tile
- azulene — (organic compound, uncountable) A bicyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing a five- and a seven-membered fused ring; it is a blue, oily liquid first obtained from the essential oil of wormwood.
- azurely — With an azure colour.
- baculum — a bony support in the penis of certain mammals, esp the carnivores
- bail up — to confine (a cow) or (of a cow) to be confined by the head in a bail
- bailout — A bailout of an organization or individual that has financial problems is the act of helping them by giving them money.
- baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
- balfour — Arthur James, 1st Earl of Balfour. 1848–1930, British Conservative statesman: prime minister (1902–05); foreign secretary (1916–19)
- ball up — to muddle or bungle
- ballium — bailey.
- ballute — a type of inflatable device resembling a cross between a parachute and a balloon, designed to slow descent rapidly
- balmung — (in the Nibelungenlied) Siegfried's sword
- balteus — (on an Ionic capital) the horizontal band connecting the volutes on either side.
- balthus — real name Balthasar Klossowski de Rola. 1908–2001, French painter of Polish descent, noted esp for his paintings of adolescent girls
- baluchi — a member of a Muslim people living chiefly in coastal Pakistan and Iran
- baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
- barbule — a very small barb
- barnaul — a city in S Russia, on the River Ob. Pop: 605 000 (2005 est)
- bascule — a bridge with a movable section hinged about a horizontal axis and counterbalanced by a weight
- bashful — Someone who is bashful is shy and easily embarrassed.
- bateful — (obsolete) Exciting contention; contentious.
- baubles — a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
- bauchle — an old worn shoe
- baulked — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- baulker — Someone who baulks.
- belarus — a republic in E Europe; part of the medieval Lithuanian and Polish empires before being occupied by Russia; a Soviet republic (1919–91); in 1997 formed a close political and economic union with Russia: mainly low-lying and forested. Languages: Belarussian; Russian. Religion: believers are mostly Christian. Currency: rouble. Capital: Minsk. Pop: 9 625 888 (2013 est). Area: 207 600 sq km (80 134 sq miles)
- belgaum — a city in India, in Karnataka: cotton, furniture, leather. Pop: 399 600 (2001)
- belukha — a twin-peaked mountain in S central Russia, near the border of Kazakhstan: highest peak in the Altai Mountains. 15,157 feet (4620 meters).
- bidault — Georges (ʒɔːrʒ). 1899–1983, French statesman; prime minister (1946, 1949–50). His opposition to Algerian independence led him to support the OAS: he was charged with treason (1963) and fled abroad
- blanqui — Louis Auguste (French lwi oɡyst). 1805–81, French revolutionary, who organized secret socialist societies and preached violent insurrection; he spent over 30 years in prison
- blaubok — a large blue-haired antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus, of southern Africa: extinct since 1800
- bleaunt — a short tunic or blouse, worn in the Middle Ages.
- blu-ray — Blu-Ray is a type of video disk that is used for storing large amounts of high quality digital information.