11-letter words containing lu
- sea blubber — a large jellyfish, Cyanea capillata.
- semi-luxury — a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
- semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
- slug it out — to strike heavily; hit hard, especially with the fist.
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
- slumberless — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumbersome — tired; sleepy
- slumdweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- slumgullion — a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
- social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
- soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- solutionist — a problem-solver
- street luge — the sport of racing down a paved incline on a wheeled sled, in a supine position.
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subcellular — contained within a cell.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- superdeluxe — very luxurious, more than deluxe
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superlunary — situated above or beyond the moon.
- superluxury — a material object, service, etc., conducive to sumptuous living, usually a delicacy, elegance, or refinement of living rather than a necessity: Gold cufflinks were a luxury not allowed for in his budget.
- superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- supper club — a nightclub, especially a small, luxurious one.
- surplussing — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- telluretted — (of a compound) combined with tellurium
- telukbetung — a port on SE Sumatra, in Indonesia.
- thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- toluic acid — any of four isomeric acids having the formula CH 3 C 6 H 4 COOH: derivatives of toluene.
- tonal value — the relative lightness or darkness of shades between black and white
- translucent — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- translunary — situated beyond or above the moon; superlunary.
- tree lupine — a shrubby, Californian tree, Lupinus arboreus, of the legume family, having hairy, finger-shaped leaflets and fragrant, sulphur-yellow flowers.
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- trifluralin — a selective herbicide, C 13 H 16 F 3 N 3 O 4 , used to control weeds.
- tristimulus — as in tristimulus values, amounts of each of three colour primaries that must be combined to form an objective colour match with a sample
- trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
- truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
- trypan blue — dye used for staining cells in biological research
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- unclubbable — not acceptable as a person with whom one can enjoy good fellowship; socially unappealing.
- uncluttered — to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner: All kinds of papers cluttered the top of his desk.