10-letter words containing w, l, u
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- jury wheel — a device, containing slips with the names of prospective jurors, that when spun mixes the names for random selection.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- laugh away — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- lawfulness — allowed or permitted by law; not contrary to law: a lawful enterprise.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- loungewear — articles of clothing suitable for wear during leisure time, especially in the home.
- louseworts — Plural form of lousewort.
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- 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 fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- low ground — Often, low grounds. Southern U.S. bottom (def 4).
- low sunday — the first Sunday after Easter.
- low-budget — made or done on a small or reduced budget; costing relatively little money: a low-budget film.
- lower hutt — an industrial town in New Zealand on the S coast of North Island. Pop: 100 300 (2004 est)
- lug wrench — a wrench for loosening or tightening lug nuts.
- lukewarmly — In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without extremeness.
- lukewarmth — lukewarmness
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- lusterware — ceramic ware covered with a luster.
- lustreware — Alternative spelling of lusterware.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- malus' law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mellow out — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- multi-view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- multipower — Of or pertaining to more than one power (in various senses).
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- news value — newsworthiness; value in terms of its interest to consumers of published or broadcast news
- nut weevil — any of several snout beetles of the genus Balaninus, the larvae of which live in and feed on nuts and acorns.
- outdweller — a person who dwells away from or is remote from a particular place.
- outflowing — Flowing out.
- outworlder — (scifi) One who comes from another planet.
- outwrestle — to beat or be more successful than in wrestling, or in a struggle
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plunk down — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- pure vowel — a vowel that is pronounced with more or less unvarying quality without any glide; monophthong
- rubblework — masonry built of rubble or roughly dressed stones.
- scrub fowl — megapode.
- sea walnut — a comb jelly, as of the genus Mnemiopsis, shaped like a walnut.
- slow virus — a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before producing symptoms, as in several neurological diseases, including kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.