9-letter words containing u, n, i, l, e
- interclub — a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
- interlude — an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
- intituled — to give a title to (a legislative act, etc.); entitle.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- involuted — intricate; complex.
- involutes — Plural form of involute.
- iron blue — any of the class of blue pigments having a high tinting strength and ranging in shade and in coloring properties from reddish blue to jet blue: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and printing inks.
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- julienned — Simple past tense and past participle of julienne.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- juveniles — Plural form of juvenile.
- juvenilia — (literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
- kien lung — Ch'ien Lung.
- klendusic — resistant to disease
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- laughline — a wrinkle near the outer corner of the eye, as if left from smiling or laughing
- laundries — Plural form of laundry.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lautering — The step or process in brewing beer which separates the mash into clear liquid wort and grain.
- lecturing — Present participle of lecture.
- lemniscus — a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- lenticule — one of many tiny cylindrical or spherical lens segments embossed on the surface of a film used in stereoscopic and color photography.
- leucoline — quinoline.
- lewis gun — a light, air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun with a circular magazine, first used in World War I.
- licensure — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limousine — any large, luxurious automobile, especially one driven by a chauffeur.
- line-haul — noting or pertaining to the transport, usually by truck, of heavy loads of freight for long distances or between cities.
- lingulate — formed like a tongue; ligulate.
- lionesque — a man of great strength, courage, etc.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- longueuil — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- lousiness — infested with lice.
- lucencies — shining.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- luciferin — a pigment occurring in luminescent organisms, as fireflies, that emits light when undergoing oxidation.
- luckiness — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- lumbering — timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- luminaire — A complete electric light unit (used especially in technical contexts).
- luminance — brightness
- luminesce — to exhibit luminescence.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- luneville — a city in NE France, W of Strasbourg: treaty between France and Austria 1801.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.