9-letter words containing lu
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- luneville — a city in NE France, W of Strasbourg: treaty between France and Austria 1801.
- lung book — book lung.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lungworts — Plural form of lungwort.
- lunisolar — pertaining to or based upon the relations or joint action of the moon and the sun.
- lunitidal — pertaining to the part of the tidal movement dependent upon the moon.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.
- lurkingly — So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.
- lusitania — (italics) a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- lustering — the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss: the luster of satin.
- lusterous — Misspelling of lustrous.
- lustfully — full of or motivated by lust, greed, or the like: He was an emperor lustful of power.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- lustiness — The property of having or experiencing lust, of being lusty.
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- luteinize — to produce corpora lutea in.
- lutenists — Plural form of lutenist.
- luteolous — fairly or somewhat luteous
- lutescent — yellowish in colour
- luton hoo — a mansion near Luton in Bedfordshire: built (1766–67) for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam; rebuilt in the 19th century: houses the Wernher Collection of tapestries, porcelain, and paintings
- lutuamian — a member of a group of American Indian peoples including the Modoc and the Klamath.
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- luxemburg — Rosa [roh-zuh;; German roh-zah] /ˈroʊ zə;; German ˈroʊ zɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Red Rosa") 1870–1919, German socialist agitator, born in Poland.
- luxuriant — abundant or lush in growth, as vegetation.
- luxuriate — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
- luxurious — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- magnaflux — to test (iron or steel) for defects using the Magnaflux method.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malus-law — the law stating that the intensity of a beam of plane-polarized light after passing through a rotatable polarizer varies as the square of the cosine of the angle through which the polarizer is rotated from the position that gives maximum intensity.
- mamelukes — Plural form of mameluke.
- mangaluru — a city and port in SW Karnataka state, in SW India.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- maxillula — either of the first pair of maxillae of a crustacean
- melungeon — a member of a people of mixed white, black, and American Indian ancestry living in the southern Appalachians.
- mezzaluna — a crescent-shaped, single- or double-bladed chopping knife, with a handle on each end or a connecting handle.
- misvalued — Simple past tense and past participle of misvalue.
- molluscan — Relating to mollusks.
- molluscum — any of various skin conditions characterized by soft, rounded tumors.
- molluskan — (rare) alternative spelling of molluscan.
- montlucon — a city in central France.
- navy blue — a dark blue.
- navy plug — a strong, dark tobacco in plug form.
- nightclub — Also, night club. an establishment for evening entertainment, generally open until the early morning, that serves liquor and usually food and offers patrons music, comedy acts, a floor show, or dancing; nightspot.