9-letter words containing u, l, o, s
- glutinous — of the nature of glue; gluey; viscid; sticky.
- gold dust — gold in fine particles.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- granulosa — (anatomy) A layer of small cells that forms the wall of an ovarian follicle.
- granulose — granular.
- granulous — consisting of grains or granules
- grossular — Relating to, or resembling, a gooseberry.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- hot flush — a blush; rosy glow: a flush of embarrassment on his face.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housefuls — Plural form of houseful.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- household — the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
- houseleek — Also called old-man-and-old-woman. a succulent plant, Sempervivum tectorum, of the stonecrop family, native to Europe, having reddish flowers and leaves forming dense basal rosettes.
- houseless — without a house or houses.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- hugeously — hugely
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- illusions — Plural form of illusion.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- insulator — Electricity. a material of such low conductivity that the flow of current through it is negligible. insulating material, often glass or porcelain, in a unit form designed so as to support a charged conductor and electrically isolate it.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- isologous — (of two or more organic compounds) chemically related but differing in composition other than by n CH 2 .
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jalousies — Plural form of jalousie.
- jealously — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jelutongs — Plural form of jelutong.
- joe louis — Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow) 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
- jongleurs — Plural form of jongleur.
- kilogauss — a unit of magnetic induction, equal to 1000 gauss. Abbreviation: kG.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.