5-letter words containing l, u, r
- lurch — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurer — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lurgi — Alternative spelling of lurgy.
- lurgy — (British, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lurks — to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
- lurry — (transitive) To lug or pull about.
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- luxor — a town in S (Upper) Egypt, on the Nile: ruins of ancient Thebes.
- mural — a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- murly — crumbly
- nuprl — /nyu p*rl/ Nearly Ultimate PRL. A system for interactive creation of formal mathematics, including definitions and proofs. It has an extremely rich type system, including dependent functions, products, sets, quotients and universes. Types are first-class citizens. It is built on Franz Lisp and Edinburgh ML.
- nurls — to make knurls or ridges on.
- orful — Eye dialect of awful.
- orgul — (obsolete) Pride.
- plur. — plural
- quarl — (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
- ruble — a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
- rugal — having ridges or folds
- ruled — paper: lined
- ruler — a person who rules or governs; sovereign.
- rules — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- rumal — a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- rural — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- slurb — a shabby, ill-planned suburban area.
- slurp — to ingest (food or drink) with loud sucking noises: He slurped his coffee.
- sural — of or relating to the calf of the leg.
- surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- thurl — the hip joint of cattle.
- trule — transformational rule.
- trull — a prostitute; strumpet.
- truly — in accordance with fact or truth; truthfully.
- ulcer — Pathology. a sore on the skin or a mucous membrane, accompanied by the disintegration of tissue, the formation of pus, etc.
- ulnar — Anatomy. the bone of the forearm on the side opposite to the thumb. Compare radius (def 7).
- ultra — going beyond what is usual or ordinary; excessive; extreme.
- uluru — a large isolated desert rock, sometimes described as the world's largest monolith, in the Northern Territory of Australia: sacred to local Aboriginal people. Height: 330m (1100 ft). Base circumference: 9 km (5.6 miles)
- urali — a resinous poison derived from many tropical American plant species
- urals — a river in the Russian Federation, flowing S from the S Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. 1575 miles (2535 km) long.
- ureal — Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
- urgel — a town in NE Spain, SSW of Andorra: cathedral.
- urial — a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
- uriel — one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- urnal — of or relating to urns