11-letter words containing l, e, u
- jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- juniper oil — an oil obtained from the berries or wood of the common juniper, Juniperus communis.
- junk dealer — a person who buys and sells discarded or secondhand objects
- junk mailer — an organization that sends junk mail in bulk, especially to solicit business or charitable contributions.
- justiceable — Liable to trial in a court of justice.
- justiciable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- justifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kamelaukion — a tall, black, brimless, flat-topped hat, worn by the clergy of the Eastern Church.
- keelhauling — Present participle of keelhaul.
- kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- kleinhuisie — an outside lavatory
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- knucklehead — a stupid, bumbling, inept person.
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- kulturkreis — formerly, a complex of related cultural traits assumed to diffuse or radiate outward as a unit in concentric waves or circles.
- l'ouverture — Toussaint L'Ouverture.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- la louviere — a city in S Belgium, S of Brussels.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacquerware — Articles that have a decorative lacquer coating, viewed collectively.
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- languescent — becoming languid
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- launderette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.