9-letter words containing c, l, o, u
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- jaculator — a person who hurls or throws
- jocularly — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- joculator — (obsolete) A jester; a joker.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kluckhohn — Clyde (Kay Maben) [mey-buh n] /ˈmeɪ bən/ (Show IPA), 1905–60, American anthropologist.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- law court — court of law.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leucocyte — leukocyte.
- leucoline — quinoline.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- leucotome — an instrument for dissecting the white matter of the brain, consisting of a cannula containing a slender rotating blade.
- leucotomy — prefrontal lobotomy.
- leukocyte — white blood cell.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lilaceous — of or approaching the color lilac.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- liquorice — licorice.
- lobscouse — a stew of meat, potatoes, onions, ship biscuit, etc.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- loculated — Locular.
- locuplete — amply stocked
- locutions — Plural form of locution.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- loquacity — the state of being loquacious; talkativeness; garrulity.
- lord muck — an ordinary man behaving or being treated as if he were aristocratic
- low-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively low number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- lubricous — (of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
- luck into — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- ludicrous — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lunchhook — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- miscolour — (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
- modular c — A preprocessor-based extension to C allowing modules.