5-letter words containing l, u
- julia — a female given name: derived from Julius.
- julie — a female given name, form of Julia.
- julio — (historical) A former coin of Italy, struck by Pope Julius II (1503-13).
- jural — pertaining to law; legal.
- jurel — any of several carangid food fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, found in warm seas.
- kabul — a republic in central Asia, NW of India and E of Iran. 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km). Capital: Kabul.
- klaus — Vaclav. born 1941, Czech politician: prime minister of the Czech Republic (1993–97); president (2003–13)
- kluck — Alexander von [ah-le-ksahn-duh r fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər fən/ (Show IPA), 1846–1934, German general.
- kluge — a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.
- klutz — a clumsy, awkward person.
- knurl — a small ridge or bead, especially one of a series, as on a button for decoration or on the edge of a thumbscrew to assist in obtaining a firm grip.
- kugel — a baked casserole resembling a soufflé or pudding.
- kulak — a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
- kulan — the Asiatic wild ass of the Russian steppes, probably a variety of kiang or onager
- kulas — Plural form of kula.
- kulfi — A type of Indian ice cream, typically served in the shape of a cone.
- kulla — the Sumerian and Akkadian god of bricks.
- kulun — Chinese name of Ulan Bator.
- laddu — An Indian confection, typically made from flour, sugar, and shortening, that is shaped into a ball.
- laius — a king of Thebes, the husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus: unwittingly killed by Oedipus.
- lamus — a son of Hercules and Omphale.
- lamut — Even.
- lanus — a city in E Argentina, S of Buenos Aires.
- larum — alarum.
- lassu — the slow section of a csárdás folk dance
- latus — (medicine) Flank.
- lauan — Philippine mahogany.
- lauda — Niki (ˈnɪki). born 1949, Austrian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion 1975, 1977, 1984
- lauds — to praise; extol.
- laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laund — an open grassy space
- laura — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “laurel.”.
- laure — (language) A language for knowledge representation combining object-oriented features and logic programming. It has set operations, object-oriented exception handling and a polymorphic type system.
- layup — the way or position in which a thing is laid or lies: the lay of the land.
- leaue — Obsolete spelling of leave.
- ledum — any of various evergreen shrubs of the genus Ledum, native to temperate and subarctic areas of the northern hemisphere
- lefun — Logic, Equations and Functions. An integration of logic programming and functional programming by H. Ait-Kaci et al of MCC, Austin TX.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
- lepus — a small constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Orion and Columba
- letup — cessation; pause; relief.
- libau — German name of Liepāja.
- lieus — place; stead.
- likud — a conservative political party in Israel, founded in 1973.
- linum — any of numerous plants of the genus Linum, including flax, L. usitatissimum, and various other species grown as ornamentals.
- linus — Classical Mythology. a musician and poet, the inventor of melody and rhythm, of whom various stories are told: often identified, through his untimely death, with the harvesting or withering of crops and vegetation. Also called Linus song. a dirge: originally sung in western Asia to mourn the death of crops being harvested, later sung to mourn the death of Linus or that of Adonis.
- linux — (operating system) ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, PowerMAC - OSF, and 68k ports all support shells, X and networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the GNU General Public License. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees Posix compliance. Linux is particularly popular for Internet Service Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux.
- linyu — Pinyin. former name of Shanhaiguan.
- lludd — a king of Britain who rid his kingdom of three plagues and was famous for his generosity: sometimes regarded as a god.
- lobus — a lobe.