8-letter words containing u, l, n
- quailing — to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- qualming — the state of having a qualm
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- queenlet — a queen of a small realm
- quelling — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
- quenelle — French Cookery. a dumpling of finely chopped fish or meat that is poached in water or stock and usually served with a sauce.
- quilling — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
- quillman — (archaic) One who writes with a quill.
- quilting — 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.
- quinella — 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.
- quiniela — quinella.
- quintals — Plural form of quintal.
- quintile — Statistics. a quantile for the special case of five equal proportions.
- quirinal — one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built.
- quisling — a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.
- rail gun — a weapon consisting of a pair of parallel conductive rails, using a magnetic field and electric current to launch projectiles at very high velocity.
- refluent — flowing back; ebbing, as the waters of a tide.
- regulant — a substance, as a chemical, used to control or regulate: herbicides and fungicides as regulants for plant growth.
- reguline — of, relating to, or of the nature of, a regulus.
- relaunch — an act or instance of launching something again.
- relucent — shining; bright.
- relumine — to relume.
- replunge — the act of replunging
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- reuchlin — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1455–1522, German humanist scholar.
- revenual — of or relating to revenue
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- rubellan — a red-coloured mineral
- ruffling — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- run wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- run-flat — (of an automobile tire) constructed so as not to deflate completely after a puncture so that a motorist can still drive the vehicle for some distance.
- runcible — Early system for mathematics on IBM 650. See also FORTRUNCIBLE, IT.
- runelike — resembling a rune or runes
- rungless — one of the crosspieces, usually rounded, forming the steps of a ladder.
- runnable — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rustling — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- rutilant — glowing or glittering with ruddy or golden light.
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scentful — full of scent or odour; fragrant
- scornful — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- scullion — a kitchen servant who does menial work.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- selenous — selenious.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- senseful — full of reasonable sense; sound; judicious.
- shunless — unable to be shunned