9-letter words containing l, i, u
- inutility — uselessness.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- iron lung — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in which alternate pulsations of high and low pressure induce normal breathing movements or force air into and out of the lungs.
- irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- issueless — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- issyk-kul — a mountain lake in NE Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan). 2250 sq. mi. (5830 sq. km).
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- itinually — (Rastafari) continually; perpetually; always.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jalousies — Plural form of jalousie.
- janiculum — a ridge near the Tiber in Rome, Italy.
- joe louis — Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- joliotium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- jubilated — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- jubilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jubilate.
- jubilatio — jubilus.
- judgelike — Resembling a judge or some aspect of one.
- judgingly — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- judicable — capable of being or liable to be judged or tried.
- juiceless — Without juice or sap.
- julienned — Simple past tense and past participle of julienne.
- julius ii — (Giuliano della Rovere) 1443–1513, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503–13.
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- junk mail — unsolicited commercial mail or email.
- juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- juttingly — in a protruding or jutting manner
- juveniles — Plural form of juvenile.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- kali yuga — the fourth and present age of the world, full of conflict and sin.
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
- kilojoule — An SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 joules.
- kiss curl — lock of hair curled on forehead
- kitzbühel — a town in W Austria, in the Tirol: centre for winter sports. Pop: 8574 (2001)
- kizil kum — Kyzyl Kum.
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- knuckling — Present participle of knuckle.
- kundalini — the vital force lying dormant within one until activated by the practice of yoga, which leads one toward spiritual power and eventual salvation.