7-letter words containing u, l, e
- plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
- plusses — more by the addition of; increased by: ten plus two is twelve.
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- pluteus — the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
- pokeful — the contents of a small bag
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- poulenc — Francis [frahn-sees] /frɑ̃ˈsis/ (Show IPA), 1899–1963, French composer and pianist.
- poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
- prelude — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- prequel — a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
- preyful — predatory
- puberal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pucelle — a maid or virgin
- pueblos — a communal structure for multiple dwelling and defensive purposes of certain agricultural Indians of the southwestern U.S.: built of adobe or stone, typically many-storied and terraced, the structures were often placed against cliff walls, with entry through the roof by ladder.
- puerile — of or relating to a child or to childhood.
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pulture — the right of foresters to claim food, drink, and lodging from the inhabitants of a forest for their own maintenance; provisions claimed in this way
- pummelo — pomelo.
- purcell — Edward Mills [milz] /mɪlz/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1952.
- purfler — someone who purfles
- purlieu — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purline — a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- purpled — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- purpler — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- puslike — a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- pussley — purslane
- pustule — Pathology. a small elevation of the skin containing pus.
- puzzled — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- puzzler — a person who puzzles.
- quadrel — a square stone, brick, or tile.
- quailed — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quailer — One who hunts quail.
- quarles — Francis, 1592–1644, English poet.
- quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
- queenly — belonging or proper to a queen: queenly propriety.
- queerly — strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- quelled — Simple past tense and past participle of quell.
- queller — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quetzal — any of several large Central and South American trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, having golden-green and scarlet plumage, especially P. mocino (resplendent quetzal) the national bird of Guatemala: rare and possibly endangered.
- quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- quiddle — a person concerned with trivialities
- quietly — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quilled — rolled or incurved into a narrow tubular form.
- quiller — a machine for quilling yarn.
- quillet — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilmes — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- quilted — resembling a quilt, as in texture, design, stitching, etc.
- quilter — a coverlet for a bed, made of two layers of fabric with some soft substance, as wool or down, between them and stitched in patterns or tufted through all thicknesses in order to prevent the filling from shifting.
- quinela — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- r-value — a measure of the resistance of an insulating or building material to heat flow, expressed as R-11, R-20, and so on; the higher the number, the greater the resistance to heat flow.