8-letter words containing u, l, n
- nu-value — Abbe number.
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- nubility — (of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- nucellar — Of or pertaining to the nucellus.
- nucellus — the central cellular mass of the body of the ovule, containing the embryo sac.
- nucflash — a report of highest precedence notifying the president, secretary of defense, or their deputies of an accidental or unauthorized nuclear-weapon launch or of a nuclear attack.
- nuclease — any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
- nucleate — having a nucleus.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nucleole — Alternative form of nucleolus.
- nucleoli — a conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
- nucleons — Plural form of nucleon.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- nuclidic — Of or pertaining to nuclides.
- nudicaul — having leafless stems.
- nuffield — William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. 1877–1963, English motorcar manufacturer and philanthropist. He endowed Nuffield College at Oxford (1937) and the Nuffield Foundation (1943), a charitable trust for the furtherance of medicine and education
- nullable — That may be nullified; nullifiable.
- nullness — the fact of being null or of being or constituting nothing
- numerals — Plural form of numeral.
- nummular — pertaining to coins or money; nummary.
- numskull — a dull-witted or stupid person; dolt.
- nundinal — any of the letters of the alphabet from A to H that related to the days of the ancient Roman week
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nursling — an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
- nurtural — relating to, resulting from, or because of nurture
- nutgalls — Plural form of nutgall.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- nuzzling — Present participle of nuzzle.
- oblongum — (geometry, archaic) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis.
- olibanum — frankincense.
- olynthus — an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.
- one-lung — having or equipped with only one lung.
- opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- outblown — Inflated with wind.
- outflank — to go or extend beyond the flank of (an opposing military unit); turn the flank of.
- outfling — (intransitive) To fling outward.
- outlands — Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
- outlearn — to exceed in learning
- outlined — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outliner — A computer application that produces a hierarchically arranged outline of the logical structure of a text document.
- outlines — Plural form of outline.
- outlying — lying at a distance from the center or the main body; remote; out-of-the-way: outlying military posts.
- palenque — a village in SE Mexico, in Chiapas state: ruins of an ancient Mayan city.
- paludine — marshy
- patulent — patulous
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- peduncle — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.