9-letter words containing u, l, e
- lockhouse — the house of a lock-keeper
- loculated — Locular.
- locuplete — amply stocked
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- longevous — long-lived; living to a great age.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- longueurs — Plural form of longueur.
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- lousiness — infested with lice.
- louvertie — a female given name.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucencies — shining.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretius — (Titus Lucretius Carus) 97?–54 b.c, Roman poet and philosopher.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- luftwaffe — air force.
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- lug-soled — (of a shoe, boot, etc.) having lugs on the sole, as to provide secure footing on rugged terrain.
- lullabied — Simple past tense and past participle of lullaby.
- lullabies — Plural form of lullaby.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- lumberman — a person who deals in lumber.
- lumbermen — Plural form of lumberman.
- lumberton — a city in S North Carolina.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- luneville — a city in NE France, W of Strasbourg: treaty between France and Austria 1801.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- lusterous — Misspelling of lustrous.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustiness — The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
- luteinize — to produce corpora lutea in.