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12-letter words containing lu

  • blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
  • blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • blues guitar — blues guitar music
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bulk modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance equal to minus the ratio of the applied stress (p) to the resulting fractional change in volume (dV/V) in a specified reference state (dV/V is the bulk strain)
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
  • calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • carbamylurea — biuret.
  • carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use
  • cellulolytic — relating to or causing the hydrolysis of the complex carbohydrate cellulose
  • ch-ien--lung — (Kao Tsung) 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.
  • cheluviation — the leaching of chelates through soil
  • chuck-a-luck — a gambling game in which players bet on the way three dice, contained in an hourglass-shaped cage, will fall when the cage is pivoted
  • circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
  • circumfluous — flowing all around
  • circumvolute — To roll, curl or twist around.
  • cirrocumulus — a high cloud of ice crystals grouped into small separate globular masses, usually occurring above 6000 metres (20 000 feet)
  • club culture — the practice of protecting the reputation of one's workforce in the face of criticism, above all other considerations
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • clubbability — The quality of being clubbable.
  • cluelessness — The state of being clueless.
  • cluster area — a place where a concentration of a particular phenomenon is found
  • cluster bomb — A cluster bomb is a type of bomb which is dropped from an aircraft. It contains a large number of smaller bombs that spread out before they hit the ground.
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • clutch plate — a plate in a vehicle's clutch that connects to the transmission
  • colluctation — a struggle or conflict
  • columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • columniation — the arrangement of architectural columns
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • conclusional — the end or close; final part.
  • conclusively — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
  • conglutinant — (of the edges of a wound or fracture) promoting union; adhesive
  • conglutinate — to cause (the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during the process of healing or (of the edges of a wound or fracture) to join during this process
  • convolutedly — twisted; coiled.
  • convolutions — an intricate, involved, or confused matter or condition
  • cote-st.-luc — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
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