10-letter words containing n, u, l
- lutestring — a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- lysigenous — caused by the breaking down of cells
- maculating — Present participle of maculate.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.
- meaningful — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- mefloquine — An antimalarial drug consisting of a fluorinated derivative of quinoline.
- megafaunal — Of or pertaining to the megafauna.
- meiofaunal — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a meiofauna.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- melburnian — 2nd Viscount, William Lamb.
- melon-bulb — a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- mensurable — measurable.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
- milk round — If someone has a milk round, they work as a milkman, going from house to house delivering milk.
- millennium — a period of 1000 years.
- miniscules — Misspelling of minuscules.
- mint julep — an alcoholic drink traditionally made with bourbon, sugar, and finely cracked ice and garnished with sprigs of mint, served in a tall, frosted glass: also made with other kinds of whiskey, brandy, and sometimes rum.
- minuscules — Plural form of minuscule.
- miscounsel — to advise wrongly.
- misvaluing — Present participle of misvalue.
- modulating — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- modulation — the act of modulating.
- moliminous — ponderous or hugely important or significant
- molybdenum — a silver-white metallic element, used as an alloy with iron in making hard, high-speed cutting tools. Symbol: Mo; atomic weight: 95.94; atomic number: 42; specific gravity: 10.2.
- monaurally — In a monaural fashion.
- monoculars — Plural form of monocular.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.
- monologues — Plural form of monologue.
- monoxylous — constructed from one whole piece of wood
- monticulus — a small protrusion on the face or top of something
- monumental — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.