8-letter words containing l, u, i, n
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
- laughing — that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- laughlin — James, IV, 1914–97, U.S. editor, publisher, and poet.
- lazuline — having the color of lapis lazuli.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- liaoyuan — a city in SE Jilin province, in NE China.
- ligneous — of the nature of or resembling wood; woody.
- ligurian — an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
- like fun — something that provides mirth or amusement: A picnic would be fun.
- lilburne — John. ?1614-57, English Puritan pamphleteer and leader of the Levellers, a radical group prominent during the Civil War
- limousin — a former province in central France.
- 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.
- linehaul — noting or pertaining to the transport, usually by truck, of heavy loads of freight for long distances or between cities.
- lineouts — Plural form of lineout.
- linguica — a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
- linguine — a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips.
- linguini — a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips.
- linguist — a specialist in linguistics.
- lingular — a tongue-shaped organ, process, or tissue.
- linnaeus — Carolus [kar-uh-luh s] /ˈkær ə ləs/ (Show IPA), (Carl von Linné) 1707–78, Swedish botanist.
- linocuts — Plural form of linocut.
- linoleum — a hard, washable floor covering formed by coating burlap or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, and rosin, and adding pigments to create the desired colors and patterns.
- lion cub — baby lion
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- littluns — Plural form of littlun.
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- liven up — make more lively
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- lounging — (of a garment) worn for leisure, as at home: lounging robe; lounging jacket.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lucianne — a female given name.
- ludhiana — a city in central Punjab, in N India.
- luminant — That illuminates; luminous.
- luminary — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- luminism — a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lunarian — a being supposedly inhabiting the moon.
- 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.
- lunching — a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
- lungeing — Present participle of lunge.