10-letter words containing l, e, u, c, i
- liliaceous — of or like the lily.
- lime juice — sharp-tasting juice of limes
- liquescent — becoming liquid; melting.
- lubricated — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- luminesced — Simple past tense and past participle of luminesce.
- luminesces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luminesce.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- meliaceous — belonging to the Meliaceae, the mahogany family of plants.
- mercifully — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- meticulous — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- millicurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie; 3.70 × 10 7 disintegrations per second. Abbreviation: mCi, mc.
- miniscules — Misspelling of minuscules.
- minuscules — Plural form of minuscule.
- miscounsel — to advise wrongly.
- multicurie — having a radioactivity of more than one curie
- multicycle — a pedalled cycle with four or more wheels
- multifaced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- multifacet — Having many facets.
- multigenic — controlled by several genes; polygenic
- multimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein that has multiple polypeptide chains.
- multipiece — Comprising more than one piece.
- musicalise — (British spelling) To set (a text etc) to music.
- musicalize — to write or produce a musical version of (a book, play, etc.): an attempt to musicalize one of Shakespeare's comedies.
- naviculare — a small boat-shaped bone of the wrist or foot
- neurologic — Relating to neurology or the nervous system.
- neurolytic — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- novaculite — a very hard sedimentary rock, similar to chert, composed essentially of microcrystalline quartz.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nuclearize — to equip with nuclear weapons; give nuclear capability to: a fear that armed forces on both sides would become nuclearized.
- nucleating — Present participle of nucleate.
- nucleation — having a nucleus.
- nucleonics — the branch of science that deals with nuclear phenomena, as radioactivity, fission, or fusion, especially practical applications, as in industrial engineering.
- nucleoside — any of the class of compounds derived by the hydrolysis of nucleic acids or nucleotides, consisting typically of deoxyribose or ribose combined with adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil, or thymine.
- nucleotide — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- occlusives — Plural form of occlusive.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- olivaceous — of a deep shade of green; olive.
- orbiculate — orbicular; rounded.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous