8-letter words containing l, u, i, n
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- puddling — a small pool of water, as of rainwater on the ground.
- pulicene — flea-ridden
- pulingly — in a complaining manner
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quilting — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- relumine — to relume.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- runelike — resembling a rune or runes
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- 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.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- silurian — of or relating to the Silures or their country.
- silvanus — the god of forests and uncultivated land, later worshiped under three aspects, as the protector of the house, of the herds, and of the boundaries of the farm.
- simulant — simulating; feigning; imitating.
- sinfully — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
- singular — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
- skulking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- sludging — intravascular slowing or clumping of red blood cells.