5-letter words containing e, u, l
- lulea — a seaport in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- lumen — Optics. the unit of luminous flux, equal to the luminous flux emitted in a unit solid angle by a point source of one candle intensity. Abbreviation: lm.
- lumme — (UK, dated) Expressing surprise.
- lunen — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, NW Germany, on the Lippe River.
- lunes — a line for securing a hawk.
- lunet — a small moon or satellite
- lunge — a sudden forward thrust, as with a sword or knife; stab.
- lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurer — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lutea — yellow
- luted — Simple past tense and past participle of lute.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- mehul — Étienne Nicolas [ey-tyen nee-kaw-lah] /eɪˈtyɛn ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), or Étienne Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1763–1817, French composer.
- melun — a department in N France. 2290 sq. mi. (5930 sq. km). Capital: Melun.
- moule — a mussel, esp. an edible variety
- mules — a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- muley — (of cattle or deer) hornless; polled.
- mulse — a drink containing honey mixed with wine or water
- mvule — a tropical African tree, Chlorophora excelsa (or Milicia excelsa)
- oleum — Pharmacology. oil.
- ousel — dipper (def 4).
- ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- ovule — Botany. a rudimentary seed. the plant part that contains the embryo sac and hence the female germ cell, which after fertilization develops into a seed.
- plume — a feather.
- poule — a chicken suitable for slow stewing; a stewing-hen
- pules — to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pulse — the edible seeds of certain leguminous plants, as peas, beans, or lentils.
- quale — a quality, as bitterness, regarded as an independent object.
- quell — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- ruble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
- ruled — paper: lined
- ruler — a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
- rules — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- salue — a salute
- seoul — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- slued — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- slues — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- thule — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
- trule — transformational rule.
- tuile — a type of delicate almond-flavoured dessert biscuit
- tules — either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tulle — a department in central France. 2273 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km). Capital: Tulle.
- tuple — Toyohashi University Parallel Lisp Environment
- uccle — a city in central Belgium: suburb of Brussels.