8-letter words containing u, l, o, s
- locknuts — Plural form of locknut.
- lockouts — Plural form of lockout.
- locustal — of or relating to locusts
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lookouts — Plural form of lookout.
- lose out — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- loudness — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
- louganis — Gregory ("Greg") born 1960, U.S. diver.
- louis ii — German Ludwig II. ("the German") a.d. 804?–876, king of Germany 843–876 (son of Louis I).
- louis iv — ("the Bavarian") 1287?–1347, king of Germany (1314–47); emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1328–47.
- louis ix — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.
- louis vi — ("the Fat") 1081–1137, king of France 1108–37.
- louis xi — 1423–83, king of France 1461–83 (son of Charles VII).
- louis xv — 1710–74, king of France 1715–74 (great grandson of Louis XIV).
- loungers — Plural form of lounger.
- louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- lugholes — Plural form of lughole.
- lugworms — Plural form of lugworm.
- luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- lummoxes — a clumsy, stupid person.
- lungeous — (of a person) violent; rough.
- luscious — highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
- lustrous — having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
- lustwort — The sundew.
- maculose — related to or characterized by having spots
- mailouts — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- modiolus — the central, conical axis of the cochlea of the ear.
- mofussil — (India) Originally, the regions of India outside the three w East India Company capitals of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras; hence, parts of a country outside an urban centre; the regions, rural areas.
- moistful — loaded with or full of wetness or moisture
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- molluscs — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mollusks — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- molossus — a type of foot in metre that contains three long syllables
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- mouflons — Plural form of mouflon.
- moulders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moulder.
- mulattos — Plural form of mulatto.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- mullions — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- multitos — (operating system) (MTOS) A new version of TOS. MultiTOS's main advantage was support for pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection. It also supported the latest (and far superior) versions of GEM. MultiTOS was supplied with the Falcon030 range of computers from Atari. It is a little known fact that the MultiTOS kernel was based heavily on the freeware OS MinT which was developed long before Atari got MultiTOS working.
- musculo- — muscle, muscle and
- nebulose — cloudlike; nebulous.
- nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
- neurosal — of or relating to neurosis; afflicted by a neurosis
- noctules — Plural form of noctule.
- nodulose — (biology) having nodules.
- nodulous — having nodules.