5-letter words containing lu
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lushy — drunk; tipsy.
- luso- — indicating Portugal or Portuguese
- lusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lust.
- lusty — full of or characterized by healthy vigor.
- lusus — a product of nature that deviates from the norm, a freak or mutant, usually as 'lusus naturae'
- lutea — yellow
- luted — Simple past tense and past participle of lute.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- luth. — Lutheran
- luton — a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- lutsk — a city in NW Ukraine, on the Styr River.
- luvvy — An actor or actress, especially one who is particularly effusive or affected.
- luxor — a town in S (Upper) Egypt, on the Nile: ruins of ancient Thebes.
- luzon — the chief island of the Philippines, in the N part of the group. 40,420 sq. mi. (104,688 sq. km). Capital: Manila.
- m'lud — my lord: used when addressing a judge in court
- mallu — (slang) a person from the Indian state of Kerala, especially one who speaks Malayalam.
- malum — An evil or wrongdoing.
- malus — (business) The return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.
- melun — a department in N France. 2290 sq. mi. (5930 sq. km). Capital: Melun.
- pilum — a javelin used in ancient Rome by legionaries, consisting of a three-foot-long shaft with an iron head of the same length.
- pilus — a hair or hairlike structure.
- pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- pluff — a blowpipe or popgun
- plugh — (games) /ploogh/ A magic word from the ADVENT game.
- plumb — J(ohn) H(arold) 1911–2001, British historian.
- plume — a feather.
- plump — direct; downright; blunt.
- plumy — having plumes or feathers.
- plunk — to pluck (a stringed instrument or its strings); twang: to plunk a guitar.
- pluot — plumcot.
- plur. — plural
- plush — a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- pluss — Proposition of a Language Useable for Structured Specifications
- pluto — Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- poilu — a French common soldier.
- pulus — a soft, elastic vegetable fiber of yellow-brown hue obtained from the young fronds of Hawaiian tree ferns, used for mattress and pillow stuffing.
- salud — to your health: used as a toast
- salue — a salute
- salus — the ancient Roman goddess of health and prosperity: identified with the Greek goddess Hygeia.
- shlub — zhlob.
- shluh — plural of Shilh.
- slued — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- slues — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- sluff — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- sluit — (in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slung — simple past tense and past participle of sling1 .
- slunk — a simple past tense and the past participle of slink.