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10-letter words containing l, u, n, a, r

  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
  • quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
  • quadrantal — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
  • quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
  • rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
  • rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
  • rainsquall — squall1 (def 1).
  • ranunculus — any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Ranunculus, having finely divided leaves and typically yellow five-petalled flowers. The genus includes buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort, and lesser celandine
  • ravenously — extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
  • re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
  • refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • reluctance — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
  • reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • returnable — that may be returned: returnable merchandise.
  • round clam — quahog.
  • roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
  • rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • ruminantly — in a ruminant manner
  • run a mile — If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
  • rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
  • saturnalia — (sometimes used with a plural verb) the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking.
  • singularly — extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
  • slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
  • squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
  • subangular — fairly angular
  • subcentral — near or almost to the center.
  • subcranial — of the area beneath the cranium or skull
  • subnatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • subnuclear — pertaining to particles within or smaller than an atomic nucleus.
  • subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
  • substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
  • sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
  • sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
  • superclean — exceptionally clean
  • superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
  • superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
  • supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • supralunar — beyond the moon
  • suprarenal — situated above or on the kidney.
  • surnominal — relating to surnames
  • sutherlandEarl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
  • tentacular — Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
  • tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
  • tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
  • tranquilly — free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm: a tranquil country place.
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