7-letter words containing lu
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- potluck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- prelude — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
- punalua — a marriage between the sisters of one family and the brothers of another
- r-value — a measure of the resistance of an insulating or building material to heat flow, expressed as R-11, R-20, and so on; the higher the number, the greater the resistance to heat flow.
- ramulus — a small branch or branchlet
- recluse — a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
- reglued — a hard, impure, protein gelatin, obtained by boiling skins, hoofs, and other animal substances in water, that when melted or diluted is a strong adhesive.
- regulus — (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a first magnitude star in the constellation Leo.
- replumb — to replace the plumbing of (a house, building, etc)
- revalue — to revise or reestimate the value of: efforts to revalue the dollar.
- rivulus — any of several killifishes of the genus Rivulus, native to small streams of tropical America, often kept in aquariums.
- romulus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- sallust — (Caius Sallustius Crispus) 86–34 b.c, Roman historian.
- schlump — a dull, colorless person.
- seclude — to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact and activity, etc.
- seculum — an age or period of time in astronomy or geology
- shilluk — a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
- silures — a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, living chiefly in SE Wales, who fiercely resisted Roman invaders in the 1st century ad.
- silurid — any of numerous Old World freshwater fishes of the family Siluridae, comprising the catfishes.
- skellum — a rascal.
- slubber — to perform hastily or carelessly.
- sluffed — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slugged — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- slugger — a person who strikes hard, especially a boxer noted for the ability to deliver hard punches.
- slumber — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- slumgum — the impure material left after honey and wax are extracted from honeycomb
- slumism — the prevalence or increase of urban slums and blighted areas.
- slummer — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slumped — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- slurban — of, relating to, or situated in a slurb
- slurper — a person who slurps his or her food or drink
- slurred — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- soilure — a stain.
- soluble — capable of being dissolved or liquefied: a soluble powder.
- solunar — pertaining to or listing the rising and setting times of the sun and moon, phases of the moon, eclipses, etc.: The newspaper gives a solunar table each week for hunters and fishermen.
- solutal — of or relating to a solute
- solutes — the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- spelunk — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- splurge — to indulge oneself in some luxury or pleasure, especially a costly one: They splurged on a trip to Europe.
- splurgy — ostentatious
- surplus — something that remains above what is used or needed.
- tamiflu — an oral antiviral drug that attacks the influenza virus and prevents it spreading inside the body
- thallus — a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form.
- titulus — a sign bearing the condemned man's name and crime, attached to the top of the cross at a crucifixion
- toluate — a salt or ester of any of the four isomeric toluic acids.
- toluene — a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable liquid, C 7 H 8 , having a benzenelike odor, obtained chiefly from coal tar and petroleum: used as a solvent in the manufacture of benzoic acid, benzaldehyde, TNT, and other organic compounds.
- toluide — any of a class of chemical compounds having the general formula RCONHC6H4CH3, derived from the toluidines by the substitution of an acid radical for one of the amino H atoms