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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.
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