8-letter words containing l, u, c, i
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
- poultice — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- publicly — by the state
- publics' — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulicide — a flea-killing substance
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- pulsific — causing the pulse to increase
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- reticule — a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rubrical — reddish; marked with red.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- rusticly — in a rustic manner
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- sciolous — pretending to have knowledge on a subject, having incomplete knowledge
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- scullion — a kitchen servant who does menial work.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- scummily — in a scummy manner
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- seleucid — a member of a Macedonian dynasty, 312–64 b.c., that ruled an empire that included much of Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Bactria, and Babylonia.
- silicium — silicon.
- silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- stickful — as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- succinyl — either of the two radicals of succinic acid
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- sulfonic — sulfo.