10-letter words containing u, n, a, l
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- loan value — the highest amount of money that can be borrowed against a life-insurance policy, based on the cash value of the policy.
- lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- longaevous — long-lived
- lotus land — the land of the lotus-eaters, or any fabulous, dreamlike setting
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lounge car — club car.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lughnasadh — an ancient Celtic festival held on Aug 1. It is also celebrated by modern pagans
- lullabying — Present participle of lullaby.
- luminaires — Plural form of luminaire.
- luminarias — Plural form of luminaria.
- luminaries — a celestial body, as the sun or moon.
- luminarism — the art and theory of the luminarists
- luminarist — a painter concerned with precision in using light and shade
- lumination — (obsolete) illumination.
- lunar year — year (def 4a).
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchbreak — A period of rest from work for the purpose of eating lunch.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- lunkheaded — Seeming to have a lunk for a head; obtuse.
- lusitanian — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustrating — Present participle of lustrate.
- lustration — to purify by a propitiatory offering or other ceremonial method.
- luxuriance — luxuriant growth or productiveness; rich abundance; lushness.
- luxuriancy — Obsolete form of luxuriance.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- maculating — Present participle of maculate.
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- male nurse — man who is a medical attendant
- malentendu — misunderstood; misapprehended.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- mandibular — pertaining to or of the nature of a mandible.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- manfulness — The state of being manful.
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manitoulin — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- manularity — /man"yoo-la"ri-tee/ ("manual" + "granularity") A notional measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build another tool (see toolsmith).
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mean value — the ratio of the integral of a given function over a closed interval to the length of the interval.