10-letter words containing e, t, o, u
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- longitudes — Plural form of longitude.
- longtitude — Misspelling of longitude.
- loose smut — a disease of cereal grasses caused by smut fungi of the genus Ustilago, in which powdery spore masses replace the host tissue
- los teques — a city in N Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- lose count — to fail to keep an accurate record of items, events, etc
- lose touch — not keep in contact
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- lower hutt — an industrial town in New Zealand on the S coast of North Island. Pop: 100 300 (2004 est)
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- lumpectomy — the surgical removal of a breast cyst or tumor.
- luteolysis — The structural and functional degradation of the corpus luteum, occurring at the end of the luteal phase of both the estrous and menstrual cycles in the absence of pregnancy.
- make up to — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- mangetouts — Plural form of mangetout.
- mast house — a deckhouse built around a mast as a platform for cargo-handling machinery, gear, and controls.
- meat house — a smokehouse.
- mellow out — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- menstruous — pertaining to menstruation.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- mesorectum — the mesentery of the rectum.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metapontum — an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- metoestrus — metestrus.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- miscompute — To compute erroneously.
- miscounted — Simple past tense and past participle of miscount.
- misdoubted — Simple past tense and past participle of misdoubt.
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- modern cut — any of several modifications or combinations of the brilliant cut, step cut, or table cut, having the girdle outline often in some novel form.
- moisturise — to add or restore moisture to (something): to moisturize one's skin with lotion; to moisturize air.
- moisturize — to add or restore moisture to (something): to moisturize one's skin with lotion; to moisturize air.
- monestrous — of or relating to a mammal that has one estrus period per breeding season, as the dog.
- monkey nut — a peanut.
- monsterous — Misspelling of monstrous.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- monumental — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
- monumented — something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- mortuaries — Plural form of mortuary.
- mosquitoes — Plural form of mosquito.
- mosquitoey — Swarming with mosquitoes.
- motoneuron — motor neuron.