6-letter words containing l, a, u
- lauter — To subject to lautering.
- lauzon — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.
- lawful — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lay up — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- lay-up — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
- layout — an arrangement or plan: We objected to the layout of the house.
- lazuli — lapis lazuli.
- le vau — Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1612–70, French architect.
- league — a unit of distance, varying at different periods and in different countries, in English-speaking countries usually estimated roughly at 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).
- leguia — Augusto Bernardino [ou-goos-taw ber-nahr-th ee-naw] /aʊˈgus tɔ ˌbɛr nɑrˈði nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1932, president of Peru 1908–12, 1919–30.
- lemalu — Jonathan (Fa'afetai). born 1976, New Zealand singer of Samoan descent; a bass-baritone noted esp for his lieder recitals
- lengua — a member of a group of Indian peoples living in the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.
- lesula — a species of Old World monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, inhabiting forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- leucas — Levkas.
- leukas — Levkas.
- ligula — Botany, Zoology. a tonguelike or strap-shaped part or organ.
- likuta — a paper money, aluminum coin, and monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 100th part of a zaire.
- lingua — the tongue or a part like a tongue.
- loquat — a small evergreen tree, Eriobotrya japonica, native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its yellow, plumlike fruit.
- louisa — a feminine name
- louvar — a red-finned, deep-sea, tropical fish, Luvarus imperialis, having the vent at the base of the pectoral fin.
- luanda — a republic in SW Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence Nov. 11, 1975. 481,226 sq. mi. (1,246,375 sq. km). Capital: Luanda.
- luanne — a female given name.
- lubras — Plural form of lubra.
- lucian — a.d. 117–c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist.
- lucida — the brightest star in a constellation.
- lucina — a title or name given to Juno as goddess of childbirth
- lucuma — a genus of trees, family Sapotaceae, of sub-tropical regions in South America, bearing a sweet egg-shaped fruit of the same name
- luella — a female given name.
- lugano — a town in S Switzerland, on Lake Lugano: a financial centre and tourist resort. Pop: 26 560 (2000)
- lukacs — George, 1885–1971, Hungarian literary critic.
- lumbal — (anatomy) Alternative form of lumbar.
- lumbar — of or relating to the loin or loins.
- lumina — 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.
- luna 9 — the Soviet lunar space-probe which made the first soft landing on the moon (1966)
- lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
- lunary — (obsolete) lunar.
- lunate — Also, lunated. being in the shape of a crescent; crescent-shaped.
- lungan — longan.
- lunula — something shaped like a narrow crescent, as the small, pale area at the base of the fingernail.
- lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
- lurcat — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.
- lurdan — a lazy, stupid, loutish fellow.
- lusaka — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 288,130 sq. mi. (746,256 sq. km). Capital: Lusaka.
- lustra — Also, luster; especially British, lustre. a period of five years.
- luteal — of, relating to, or involving the corpus luteum.
- luwian — an extinct ancient Anatolian language written in cuneiform.
- luxate — to put out of joint; dislocate: The accident luxated the left shoulder.
- luxian — former name of Luzhou.
- lvalue — (programming) A reference to a location, an expression which can appear as the destination of an assignment operator indicating where a value should be stored. For example, a variable or an array element are lvalues but the constant 42 and the expression i+1 are not. A constant string may or may not be an lvalue (it usually is in C).