10-letter words containing u, l
- adactylous — possessing no fingers or toes
- adequality — Quality of being adequal.
- adequately — as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit (often followed by to or for): This car is adequate to our needs. adequate food for fifty people.
- adjustable — If something is adjustable, it can be changed to different positions or sizes.
- adjustably — In a way that is adjustable.
- adulations — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
- adullamite — a person who has withdrawn from a political group and joined with a few others to form a dissident group
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- aemulation — Archaic spelling of emulation.
- affluently — in an abundant or wealthy manner
- agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
- aglutition — (medicine) Inability to swallow.
- agricultor — (archaic) An agriculturist; a farmer.
- air bubble — a small pocket of air in a liquid, glass, metal etc
- akiapolaau — a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.
- al-bukhari — Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil [ib-uh n is-mah-eel] /ˈɪb ən ɪsˈmɑ il/ (Show IPA), a.d. 810–870, a collector of the Hadith.
- al-ubayyid — El Obeid
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- alacritous — cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- alba iulia — a city in W central Romania, on the Muresul River; the historic capital of Transylvania.
- albumblatt — a short occasional instrumental composition, usually light in character
- albumenize — to coat with a solution containing albumen or albumin
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- albuminate — any of several substances formed from albumin by the action of acid or alkali
- albuminize — to convert into albumin
- albuminoid — resembling albumin
- albuminose — Alternative form of albuminous.
- albuminous — of or containing albumin
- aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
- alexicacus — an epithet of Apollo, meaning “averter of evil,” in reference to his dispelling a plague that afflicted the Athenian forces in the Peloponnesian War.
- algonquian — a family of North American Indian languages whose speakers ranged over an area stretching from the Atlantic between Newfoundland and Delaware to the Rocky Mountains, including Micmac, Mahican, Ojibwa, Fox, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Shawnee. Some linguists relate it to Muskogean in a Macro-Algonquian phylum
- alice blue — a pale grayish-blue color.
- alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- aliquoting — Present participle of aliquote.
- all square — mutually clear of all debts or obligations
- all thumbs — clumsy
- all-around — You say all around to indicate that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
- alliaceous — of or relating to Allium, a genus of plants that have a strong onion or garlic smell and often have bulbs: family Alliaceae. The genus occurs in the N hemisphere and includes onion, garlic, leek, chive, and shallot
- allocution — a formal or authoritative speech or address, esp one that advises, informs, or exhorts
- allogamous — cross-fertilization in plants (opposed to autogamy).
- allosaurus — any of a genus (Allosaurus) of huge, carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
- allurement — fascination; charm.
- alluringly — very attractive or tempting; enticing; seductive.