9-letter words containing l, e, u
- curtilage — the enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house
- curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
- cut loose — to free or become freed from restraint, custody, anchorage, etc
- cuticulae — Plural form of cuticula.
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cyan blue — a moderate greenish-blue to bluish-green color.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- de gaulle — Charles (André Joseph Marie) (ʃarl). 1890–1970, French general and statesman. During World War II, he refused to accept Pétain's armistice with Germany and founded the Free French movement in England (1940). He was head of the provisional governments (1944–46) and, as first president of the Fifth Republic (1959–69), he restored political and economic stability to France
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- de-couple — to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- debateful — quarrelsome
- debulking — Present participle of debulk.
- decalogue — Ten Commandments
- deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- declutter — to simplify or get rid of mess, disorder, complications, etc, from
- decoupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decouple.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- deculture — to deculturate.
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- deducible — to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
- deducibly — in a deducible or conjecturable manner
- deep blue — (computer) A super computer developed by researchers at IBM to explore the use of parallel processing to solve complex computing problems. It is known as the first computer to beat the current chess World Grand Master. Deep Blue started it's life as a PhD project at Carnegie Mellon University by PhD students Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell. Chiptest, as it was known then, consisted of a custom designed chip hosted in a Sun 3/160 computer. The project moved over to IBM in 1989 when Hsu and Campbell joined IBM. Deep Thought, as it was known by then, played for the first time against Garry Kasparov in the same year. The game of two matches was easily won by Kasparov. The next match against Kasparov took place in February 1996. By then the machine was again renamed, at that time it was known as Deep Blue. It was also heavily re-engineered: it was by then running on a 32-node RS/6000 cluster, each containing 8 custom designed chips. Alas, Kasparov won again. The breakthrough finally happened in February 1997: with both the algorithm and the raw speed significantly improved, Deep Blue beat Kasparov 3.5:2.5.
- defaulted — failure to act; inaction or neglect: They lost their best client by sheer default.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- deflexure — the act or condition of deflection or deviation
- defluxion — anything that flows downwards
- defueling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- dehulling — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- deliquium — loss of consciousness; fainting
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- deliriums — Plural form of delirium.
- delousing — Present participle of delouse.
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- deludable — Capable of being deluded; gullible.
- delundung — a spotted carnivorous mammal, Prionodon gracilis, native to East India and similar to the civet
- delusions — Plural form of delusion.
- demulcent — soothing; mollifying
- demulsify — to undergo or cause to undergo a process in which an emulsion is permanently broken down into its constituents
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium