8-letter words containing e, l, u, s
- louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- luckiest — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- luddites — a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
- luggages — suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- luisetti — Angelo ("Hank") 1916–2002, U.S. basketball player.
- lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lunettes — Plural form of lunette.
- lungeous — (of a person) violent; rough.
- lungless — Without lungs.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- lurchers — Plural form of lurcher.
- lushhead — lush2 (def 1).
- lushness — (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
- lustered — having or finished with a luster.
- lusterer — a person who puts a lustrous finish or gloss on textiles.
- lustiest — Superlative form of lusty.
- lustless — Without sexual lust.
- lustrate — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lutefisk — dried cod tenderized by soaking in lye, which is rinsed out before cooking.
- lutenist — a person who plays the lute.
- luthiers — Plural form of luthier.
- luxuries — a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- misruled — Simple past tense and past participle of misrule.
- misruler — One who rules badly.
- misrules — Plural form of misrule.
- misvalue — (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- muddlers — Plural form of muddler.
- mudslide — mudflow.
- mufflers — Plural form of muffler.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- multiuse — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- museless — Uncultured.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- muslined — draped or covered with muslin
- muslinet — a thick type of muslin
- mustelid — any of numerous carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, comprising the weasels, martens, skunks, badgers, and otters.