10-letter words containing u, r, l
- licensures — the granting of licenses, especially to engage in professional practice.
- lie around — sb: lounge idly
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- lift truck — a dolly or truck for lifting and moving, especially palletized loads.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- limivorous — of or relating to animals, usually worms or bivalves, that ingest earth or mud to extract the organic matter from it.
- linguiform — having the shape of a tongue; tongue-shaped.
- linguister — an interpreter
- linguistry — the study of language
- liquefiers — Plural form of liquefier.
- liquid air — a pale blue, intensely cold liquid, obtained by the compression and cooling of air: used as a source of oxygen, nitrogen, and inert gases, and as a refrigerant.
- liquidator — a person who liquidates assets, especially one authorized to do so by a court of law.
- liquidiser — Alternative spelling of liquidizer.
- liquidizer — (British) A machine to chop or puree food.
- literateur — Alternative spelling of litterateur.
- literatuer — Obsolete form of literature.
- literature — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- litterbugs — Plural form of litterbug.
- liturgical — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgists — Plural form of liturgist.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- loaf sugar — a large conical mass of hard refined sugar; sugar loaf
- locutorium — parlor (def 4).
- long purse — wealth; riches
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- louis d'or — a former gold coin of France, issued from 1640 to 1795; pistole.
- louis riel — Louis, 1844–85, Canadian revolutionary.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- loundering — a beating
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lounge car — club car.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- loup-garou — a werewolf; lycanthrope.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.
- low church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican Church that emphasizes evangelicalism and lays little stress on the sacraments, church rituals, and church authority.
- low ground — Often, low grounds. Southern U.S. bottom (def 4).
- lower hutt — an industrial town in New Zealand on the S coast of North Island. Pop: 100 300 (2004 est)
- lubricants — Plural form of lubricant.
- lubricated — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lubricate.
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
- lucerative — Misspelling of lucrative.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.