9-letter words containing l, u, t, e, n
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- solutrean — Archaeology. of or designating an Upper Paleolithic European culture c18,000–16,000 b.c., characterized by the making of stone projectile points and low-relief stone sculptures.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- sublunate — almost crescent-shaped
- submental — situated beneath the chin
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sultanate — the office or rule of a sultan.
- sultaness — sultana (defs 2, 3).
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- tellurian — of or characteristic of the earth or its inhabitants; terrestrial.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- temulence — drunkenness
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- tendulkar — Sachin (ˈsæʃɪn) (Ramesh). born 1973, Indian cricketer: he played in 200 test matches (1989–2013) and was the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in tests (2011) and first to score 100 international centuries (2012)
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- toluidine — any of three isomeric amines having the formula C 7 H 9 N, derived from toluene: used in the dye and drug industries.
- tonguelet — a small tongue
- touchline — any of the outer lines bordering the playing field.
- traguline — like or characteristic of a tragule
- tremulant — trembling; tremulous.
- truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
- truculent — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- tunneling — Physics. a quantum-mechanical process by which a particle can pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the energy of the particle: first postulated to explain the escape of alpha particles from atomic nuclei.
- tunnelled — an underground passage.
- tunneller — an underground passage.
- turbulent — being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
- turmaline — tourmaline.
- turnhalle — a building in which gymnastics is taught and practised
- turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
- turntable — the rotating disk that spins the record on a phonograph.
- uitlander — a foreigner, especially a British settler in the Boer republics prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa.
- ulsterman — a native or inhabitant of Ulster.
- ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
- unactable — (of a play, role, etc) not able to be acted or dramatized
- unadeptly — in an unadept or unskilled manner
- unalerted — not alerted
- unaltered — not altered, changed, or modified: We approved the unaltered designs.
- unblotted — free from discredit; without a blemish or stain
- unblunted — not blunted or made dull
- uncle tom — a black person, especially a man, considered by other black people to be subservient to or to curry favor with white people.
- unclothed — to strip of clothes.
- unclotted — a mass or lump.
- unclutter — to remove clutter from; tidy
- unculture — the lack or absence of culture: Much modern fiction is a product of unculture.