10-letter words containing s, o, u, r, l
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- lauraceous — belonging to the plant family Lauraceae.
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- le creusot — a city in E central France.
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- long purse — wealth; riches
- 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
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
- 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.
- lumbersome — unwieldy; cumbrous
- lumisterol — a steroid compound produced when ergosterol is exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Formula: C28H44O
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- lustrously — In a lustrous manner, glossily.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- marlaceous — Resembling marl.
- marvellous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
- megalosaur — any gigantic carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Megalosaurus, of the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
- miraculous — performed by or involving a supernatural power or agency: a miraculous cure.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modulators — Plural form of modulator.
- monoculars — Plural form of monocular.
- morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- multistory — (of a building) having several or many stories.
- music roll — a roll of perforated paper for actuating a player piano.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- neurolysin — (neuroscience, toxicology) A neurotoxin.
- neurolysis — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nonsecular — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- numerously — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- oleiferous — giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha.
- oleo strut — a hydraulic device used as a shock absorber in the landing gear of aircraft, consisting of an oil-filled cylinder fitted with a hollow, perforated piston into which oil is slowly forced when a compressive force is applied to the landing gear, as in a landing.
- oleraceous — having the qualities or nature of a pot-herb for cookery
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- outbluster — to surpass in blustering
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- outsettler — a person who inhabits a remote settlement or area.