9-letter words containing e, u, l, o
- houseless — without a house or houses.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- hugeously — hugely
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- idealogue — One given to fanciful ideas or theories, someone who theorizes.
- ideologue — a person who zealously advocates an ideology.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jalousies — Plural form of jalousie.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- joe louis — Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kilojoule — An SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 joules.
- knurl toe — French foot (def 1).
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- 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 tortue — French name of Tortuga.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourite — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- ladle out — If you ladle out something such as money, information, or advice, you give it freely and in large quantities.
- laevulose — (carbohydrate) alternative spelling of levulose (fructose).
- lamoureux — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1834–99, French violinist and conductor.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- languedoc — a former province in S France. Capital: Toulouse.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- leave out — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- leavenous — containing leaven
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- let up on — If you let up on someone or something, you stop being so harsh or strict with them.
- 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.