10-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- linguister — an interpreter
- linguistry — the study of language
- liquefiers — Plural form of liquefier.
- liquidiser — Alternative spelling of liquidizer.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- litterbugs — Plural form of litterbug.
- liturgists — Plural form of liturgist.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- louis d'or — a former gold coin of France, issued from 1640 to 1795; pistole.
- louis riel — Louis, 1844–85, Canadian revolutionary.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- lustrating — Present participle of lustrate.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lutestring — a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
- luxuriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luxuriate.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
- milk sugar — lactose.
- miraculous — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- mudslinger — One who casts aspersion, who insults. Especially a political candidate who makes negative statements about the opposition.
- muesli bar — a snack made of compressed muesli ingredients
- mulberries — Plural form of mulberry.
- mulligrubs — ill temper; colic; grumpiness.
- multi-user — (operating system) A term describing an operating system or application program that can be used by several people concurrently; opposite of single-user. Unix is an example of a multi-user operating system, whereas most (but not all) versions of Microsoft Windows are intended to support only one user at a time. A multi-user system, by definition, supports concurrent processing of multiple tasks (once known as "time-sharing") or true parallel processing if it has multiple CPUs. While batch processing systems often ran jobs for serveral users concurrently, the term "multi-user" typically implies interactive access. Before Ethernet networks were commonplace, multi-user systems were accessed from a terminal (e.g. a vt100) connected via a serial line (typically RS-232). This arrangement was eventually superseded by networked personal computers, perhaps sharing files on a file server. With the wide-spread availability of Internet connections, the idea of sharing centralised resources is becoming trendy again with cloud computing and managed applications, though this time it is the overhead of administering the system that is being shared rather than the cost of the hardware. In gaming, both on PCs and games consoles, the equivalent term is multi-player, though the first multi-player games (e.g. ADVENT) were on multi-user computers.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- multiverse — (in physics and cosmology) a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own.
- music roll — a roll of perforated paper for actuating a player piano.
- muslim era — the period since the flight of Muhammad from Mecca in a.d. 622; Hijra.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- naturalise — Alternative spelling of naturalize.
- naturalism — Literature. a manner or technique of treating subject matter that presents, through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human life and actions. a deterministic theory of writing in which it is held that a writer should adopt an objective view toward the material written about, be free of preconceived ideas as to form and content, and represent with clinical accuracy and frankness the details of life. Compare realism (def 4b). a representation of natural appearances or natural patterns of speech, manner, etc., in a work of fiction. the depiction of the physical environment, especially landscape or the rural environment.