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11-letter words containing e, u, l, o

  • upper floor — An upper floor in a hotel is on a level above the first floor.
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
  • ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
  • veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
  • vermiculous — containing or resembling worms
  • versicolour — changeable in color: versicolor skies.
  • vice-consul — a consular officer of a grade below that of consul.
  • vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
  • vol-au-vent — a large shell of light, flaky pastry for filling with vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
  • volume unit — a logarithmic unit used to measure the magnitude of a sound wave.
  • voluntative — a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb
  • volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
  • vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
  • watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
  • waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
  • well enough — sufficiently
  • well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
  • wellfounded — (math) Alternative form of well-founded.
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • wheelhouses — Plural form of wheelhouse.
  • white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
  • wonderfully — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • wool cheque — the annual return for a sheep farmer
  • worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately
  • wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
  • yellow rust — stripe rust.
  • zealousness — full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm. Antonyms: apathetic; lackadaisical.
  • zhou en lai — Chou En-lai
  • zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides
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