13-letter words containing lu
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coccobacillus — a spherelike bacillus.
- columelliform — like a columella.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- conclusionary — conclusory
- conglutinated — Simple past tense and past participle of conglutinate.
- conglutinator — an agent that conglutinates
- convolvuluses — Plural form of convolvulus.
- corpora lutea — corpus luteum
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- cumulus cloud — a bulbous or billowing white or dark grey cloud associated with rising air currents
- cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- deglutination — to extract the gluten from.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- dextroglucose — dextrose
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- disilluminate — to darken
- disillusioned — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- dissolubility — The capability to be dissolved or disintegrated.
- dissoluteness — indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
- double-clutch — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- duck-egg blue — a pale greenish-blue colour
- electric blue — Something that is electric blue is very bright blue in colour.
- electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
- excludability — The ability to be excluded.
- exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
- exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
- extracellular — Situated or taking place outside a cell or cells.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluidized bed — a bed of fluidized solids used as a heat exchanger or mass transfer medium
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.