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7-letter words containing lu

  • mollusk — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
  • mudlump — a small, short-lived island of clay or silt that forms within a river delta.
  • mukluks — Plural form of mukluk.
  • mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
  • nelumbo — lotus (def 3).
  • nodulus — a small node, especially on the vermis of the cerebellum.
  • nonplus — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
  • occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
  • ocellus — a type of simple eye common to invertebrates, consisting of retinal cells, pigments, and nerve fibers.
  • osculum — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
  • outflux — the act of flowing out; outflow (opposed to influx).
  • p value — (statistics)   The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
  • pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
  • paludal — of or relating to marshes.
  • phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
  • pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
  • plucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
  • plucker — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
  • plug in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
  • plug-in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
  • plugged — If something is plugged or plugged up, it is completely blocked so that nothing can get through it.
  • plugger — a person or thing that plugs.
  • plugola — payment or favor given to people in media or motion pictures for favorable mention or display of a particular product or brand name.
  • plumage — the entire feathery covering of a bird.
  • plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
  • plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • plumber — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • plumbic — containing lead, especially in the tetravalent state.
  • plumbum — lead2 (def 1).
  • plumcot — a hybrid tree produced by crossing the apricot and the plum.
  • plumery — a collection of plumes
  • pluming — a feather.
  • plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
  • plummer — the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone.
  • plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
  • plumose — having feathers or plumes; feathered.
  • plumous — having plumes or feathers
  • plumpen — to make or become plump
  • plumper — a heavy or sudden fall.
  • plumula — a down feather
  • plumule — Botany. the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo.
  • plunder — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • plunger — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • plunker — a person or thing that plunks.
  • plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
  • plusses — more by the addition of; increased by: ten plus two is twelve.
  • pluteal — relating to a pluteus
  • pluteus — the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of an echinoid or ophiuroid.
  • pluvial — of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
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