4-letter words containing lu
- lump — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lums — Plural form of lum.
- luna — the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon, sometimes identified with Diana.
- lund — a city in SE Sweden, northeast of Malmö: founded in about 1020 by the Danish King Canute; the archbishopric for all Scandinavia in the Middle Ages; university (1668). Pop: 101 427 (2004 est)
- lune — a line for securing a hawk.
- lung — either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of humans and the higher vertebrates.
- lunk — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- luny — lunatic; insane.
- lupe — a female given name.
- lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurk — lurking
- lurt — (UK dialectal, Scotland) A lump of dirt or excrement; a turd.
- lurv — (informal) Alternative form of lurve.
- lush — (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
- lusk — Lazy or slothful.
- lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- luta — former name of Dalian (def 1).
- lute — a paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
- luth — The leatherback turtle.
- lutz — a jump in which the skater leaps from the back outer edge of one skate to make one full rotation in the air and lands on the back outer edge of the opposite skate.
- luvs — Alternative spelling of luvzt, Plural form of luv.
- luxe — luxury; elegance; sumptuousness: accommodations providing luxe at low rates. Compare deluxe.
- oulu — a city in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- plug — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
- plum — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- plus — more by the addition of; increased by: ten plus two is twelve.
- pulu — a soft, elastic vegetable fiber of yellow-brown hue obtained from the young fronds of Hawaiian tree ferns, used for mattress and pillow stuffing.
- slub — to extend (slivers of fiber) and twist slightly in carding.
- slue — to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it from its place.
- slug — a hard blow or hit, especially with a fist or baseball bat.
- slum — Often, slums. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
- slur — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- slut — Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- sulu — a member of the most numerous tribe of Moros, living chiefly in the Sulu Archipelago.
- tdlu — Tanduay Distillery Labor Union
- tnlu — Tamil Nadu Labour Union
- tolu — Also called tolu balsam, balsam of tolu, tolu resin. a fragrant, yellowish-brown balsam or resin obtained from a South American leguminous tree, Myroxylon balsamum, and used in medicine as a stomachic and expectorant, and in perfumery.
- trlu — Taiwan Railway Labor Union
- tulu — a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka in southern India.
- ulua — a river in NW Honduras, flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- ulus — a knife with a broad, nearly semicircular blade joined to a short haft at a right angle to the unsharpened side: a traditional tool of Eskimo women.
- wluc — West London Ultimate Clubs
- wplu — Wire Products Labour Union
- yalu — a river in E Asia, forming part of the boundary between Manchuria and North Korea and flowing SW to the Yellow Sea. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- zulu — a member of a Nguni people living mainly in Natal, Republic of South Africa.