7-letter words containing lu
- lucigen — a lamp that burns oil mixed with hot air
- lucille — a female given name, form of Lucia or Lucy.
- lucinda — a female given name, form of Lucy.
- luckier — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckily — by good luck; fortunately: Luckily we had enough money.
- lucking — Present participle of luck.
- lucknow — a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). Capital: Lucknow.
- luddism — a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
- luddite — a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811–16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
- ludship — a humorous or hurried form of 'lordship'
- luening — Otto, 1900–1996, U.S. composer, conductor, and flutist.
- luffing — the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail.
- lug nut — a large nut fitting on a heavy bolt, used especially in attaching a wheel to a motor vehicle.
- luganda — a Bantu language of Uganda.
- lugansk — a city in E Ukraine, in the Donets Basin.
- luggage — suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.
- luggers — Plural form of lugger.
- lugging — to pull or carry with force or effort: to lug a suitcase upstairs.
- lughole — (British, slang) ear.
- lugones — Leopoldo [le-aw-pawl-daw] /ˌlɛ ɔˈpɔl dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1874–1938, Argentine poet and diplomat.
- lugsail — a quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely.
- lugworm — any burrowing annelid of the genus Arenicola, of ocean shores, having tufted gills: used as bait for fishing.
- luhsien — Luxian.
- luichow — a peninsula of SW Guangdong province, in SE China, between the South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin. About 75 miles (120 km) long; about 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- lulealv — a river in N Sweden, flowing SE to the Gulf of Bothnia. 275 miles (443 km) long.
- lullaby — a song used to lull a child to sleep; cradlesong.
- lulling — to put to sleep or rest by soothing means: to lull a child by singing.
- lum-hat — a top hat
- lumbago — pain in the lower, or lumbar, region of the back or loins, especially chronic or recurring pain.
- lumbang — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, the fruits of which yield tung oil
- lumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lumber.
- lumenal — Of or pertaining to the lumen.
- lumiere — Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas [oh-gyst ma-ree lwee nee-kaw-lah] /oʊˈgüst maˈri lwi ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1862–1954, and his brother, Louis Jean [lwee zhahn] /lwi ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA) 1864–1948, French chemists and manufacturers of photographic materials: inventors of a motion-picture camera (1895) and a process of color photography.
- luminal — (biology) of or pertaining to the lumen.
- lumined — to illumine.
- luminol — (organic compound) A chemical that exhibits blue chemiluminescence when mixed with an appropriate oxidizing agent, molecular formula C8H7N3O2.
- lump it — accept sth unpleasant
- lumpers — Plural form of lumper.
- lumpier — Comparative form of lumpy.
- lumpily — In a lumpy manner.
- lumping — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lumpish — resembling a lump.
- lumpkin — a heavy or clumsy person
- lumpsum — Paid all at one time.
- lumumba — Patrice (Emergy) [puh-trees em-er-zhee] /pəˈtris ˌɛm ɛrˈʒi/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, African political leader: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960–61.
- lunated — Lunate; crescent-shaped.
- lunates — Plural form of lunate.
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- lunched — Simple past tense and past participle of lunch.
- luncher — Someone who lunches, someone who eats lunch.