10-letter words containing o, l, d, r, u
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- fluoridise — fluoridate
- fluoridize — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- formulised — formulate.
- formulized — Simple past tense and past participle of formulize.
- full board — accommodation: room and meals
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- furloughed — Simple past tense and past participle of furlough.
- glanderous — Characteristic of, pertaining to, or afflicted by glanders.
- ground log — a lead weight attached to a line, cast overboard in shoal water and allowed to pay out freely to show the speed of a ship and the force of the current.
- ground owl — the burrowing owl.
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- groundedly — in a grounded manner, or with good justification or reason
- groundless — without rational basis: groundless fears.
- groundling — a plant or animal that lives on or close to the ground.
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groundsels — Plural form of groundsel.
- groundsill — the lowermost sill of a framed structure, especially one lying close to the ground.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hydromulch — to spread mulch on (a field, garden, etc.) in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- idolatrous — worshiping idols.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- laundromat — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.; launderette.
- lemon curd — lemon paste made with eggs and sugar
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leukoderma — vitiligo.
- lie around — sb: lounge idly
- liquidator — a person who liquidates assets, especially one authorized to do so by a court of law.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- louis d'or — a former gold coin of France, issued from 1640 to 1795; pistole.
- loundering — a beating
- low ground — Often, low grounds. Southern U.S. bottom (def 4).