8-letter words containing l, i, t, u, n
- intitule — to give a title to (a legislative act, etc.); entitle.
- involute — intricate; complex.
- istanbul — a port in NW Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.
- jauntily — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- jubilant — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilent — Misspelling of jubilant.
- junglist — A performer or enthusiast of jungle music.
- lincture — A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
- line cut — an engraving consisting only of lines or areas that are solid black or white. Compare halftone (def 2).
- line out — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-out — a procedure for putting an out-of-bounds ball back in play, whereby a player outside the touchline tosses the ball high and between two lines of opposing forwards lined up perpendicular to the touchline.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linguist — a specialist in linguistics.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- littluns — Plural form of littlun.
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- luminant — That illuminates; luminous.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- lunarist — a person who believes the moon influences weather
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- luristan — a mountainous region in W Iran.
- lusatian — a native or inhabitant of Lusatia.
- lustring — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- lutanist — a person who plays the lute.
- lutenist — a person who plays the lute.
- luteolin — a yellow coloring substance, C 15 H 10 O 6 , obtained from the weed Reseda luteola: used in dyeing silk and, formerly, in medicine.
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- luxating — Present participle of luxate.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- minutely — occurring every minute.
- minutial — having the nature of minutiae, or relating to minutiae
- moulinet — a portable pulley device for bending crossbow or turning the drum of a crane
- moulting — Present participle of moult.
- mulcting — Present participle of mulct.
- multiton — Weighing more than one ton.
- muslinet — a thick type of muslin
- nautical — of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
- nautilus — Also called chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus. any cephalopod of the genus Nautilus, having a spiral, chambered shell with pearly septa.
- nonguilt — the state of being innocent or not guilty
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outlines — Plural form of outline.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.
- plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.