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6-letter words containing l, a, u

  • simula — (language)   SIMUlation LAnguage. See Lund Simula, SIMULA 67, SIMULA I. See also Association for SIMULA Users, C++SIM, FLEX, MODSIM, SIMSCRIPT. A simula-to-C compiler project is underway. E-mail: Harald Thingelstad <[email protected]>.
  • situla — a deep urn, vase, or bucket-shaped vessel, especially one made in the ancient world.
  • spauld — a shoulder
  • squail — to throw sticks (at) or hit with sticks
  • squall — the act or sound of squalling: The baby's squall was heard next door.
  • squeal — a somewhat prolonged, sharp, shrill cry, as of pain, fear, or surprise.
  • suable — liable to be sued; capable of being sued.
  • suably — in a suable manner
  • sulcal — of or pertaining to a sulcus
  • sulpha — any of a group of sulphonamides that prevent the growth of bacteria
  • sultan — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
  • tabula — an ancient tablet for writing on
  • tabuli — tabbouleh
  • talcum — Also, talcum [tal-kuh m] /ˈtæl kəm/ (Show IPA). a green-to-gray, soft mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, Mg 3 (Si 4 O 10)(OH) 2 , unctuous to the touch, and occurring usually in foliated or compact masses, used in making lubricants, talcum powder, electrical insulation, etc.
  • talmud — the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.
  • taluka — a hereditary estate.
  • tautly — tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
  • tegula — (in certain insects) a scalelike lobe at the base of the forewing.
  • thulia — a dense, greenish-white powder, TmO 3 , that on gentle heating exhibits a reddish incandescence: used in the manufacture of thulium metal.
  • toluca — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
  • torula — a highly nutritious yeast produced commercially on a sugar recovered from the manufacture of wood products or from processed fruit.
  • tugela — a river in E South Africa, rising in the Drakensberg where it forms the Tugela Falls, 856 m (2810 ft) high (highest waterfall in Africa), before flowing east to the Indian Ocean: scene of battles during the Zulu War (1879) and the Boer War (1899–1902). Length: about 500 km (312 miles)
  • tuinal — a combination of equal parts of secobarbital sodium and amobarbital sodium, used as a quick and relatively long-acting sedative or hypnotic
  • tuladi — lake trout.
  • tulare — a city in central California.
  • tulear — a city on SW Madagascar.
  • tulwar — any of several Indian sabers.
  • tussal — pertaining to tussis.
  • tuvalu — a parliamentary state consisting of a group of islands in the central Pacific, S of the equator: a former British colony; gained independence 1978. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km). Capital: Funafuti.
  • tuxtla — city in Chiapas state, SE Mexico: pop. 296,000
  • ugliac — (language)   An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • uhland — Johann Ludwig [yoh-hahn loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1787–1862, German poet and writer.
  • ullage — the amount by which the contents fall short of filling a container, as a cask or bottle.
  • ulnare — any of the eight small bones of the carpus
  • ulpian — (Domitius Ulpianus) died a.d. 288? Roman jurist.
  • ultima — (italics) Latin. the highest degree attainable.
  • ultra- — Ultra- is added to adjectives to form other adjectives that emphasize that something or someone has a quality to an extreme degree.
  • umbral — shade; shadow.
  • umlaut — a mark (¨) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, especially as so used in German. Compare dieresis.
  • umtali — former name of Mutare.
  • unable — lacking the necessary power, competence, etc., to accomplish some specified act: He was unable to swim.
  • unbale — to remove from a bale or tightly bound package
  • uncalm — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
  • uncial — designating, written in, or pertaining to a form of majuscule writing having a curved or rounded shape and used chiefly in Greek and Latin manuscripts from about the 3rd to the 9th century a.d.
  • unclad — a simple past tense and past participle of unclothe.
  • unglad — not glad
  • ungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
  • ungula — Botany. an unguis.
  • unheal — poor health
  • unital — containing, or belonging or relating to, a unit
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