5-letter words containing lu
- flunk — to fail in a course or examination.
- fluo- — fluoro-
- fluor — fluorite.
- flurr — a whir; a fluttering; a flurry
- flurt — Alternative spelling of flirt.
- flush — a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.
- flute — a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.
- fluty — having the tone and rather high pitch variation of a flute: a person of fastidious manner and fluty voice.
- fluyt — a Dutch type of cargo ship, originating in the 16th century
- galut — the forced exile of Jews, especially from countries where they were most persecuted.
- glubb — Sir John Bagot [bag-uh t] /ˈbæg ət/ (Show IPA), ("Glubb Pasha") 1897–1986, British army officer: commander of the Arab Legion in Jordan 1939–56.
- gluck — Alma (Reba Fiersohn; Mme. Efrem Zimbalist) 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.
- glued — Simple past tense and past participle of glue.
- gluer — One who glues.
- glues — Plural form of glue.
- gluey — like glue; viscid; sticky.
- glugs — Plural form of glug.
- glume — one of the characteristic chafflike bracts of the inflorescence of grasses, sedges, etc., especially one of the pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet.
- glump — (colloquial) To be sullen; to sulk.
- gluon — an unobserved massless particle with spin 1 that is believed to transmit the strong force between quarks, binding them together into baryons and mesons.
- glute — (exercise, colloquial) A gluteal muscle.
- gluts — to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- hilum — Botany. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta. the nucleus of a granule of starch.
- hilus — An indentation in the surface of a kidney, spleen, or other organ, where blood vessels, ducts, nerve fibers, etc., enter or leave it.
- illus — illustrated
- iulus — the son of Ascanius, founder of the Julian gens or clan
- kluck — Alexander von [ah-le-ksahn-duh r fuh n] /ˌɑ lɛˈksɑn dər fən/ (Show IPA), 1846–1934, German general.
- kluge — a software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task.
- klutz — a clumsy, awkward person.
- kulun — Chinese name of Ulan Bator.
- lludd — a king of Britain who rid his kingdom of three plagues and was famous for his generosity: sometimes regarded as a god.
- lu6.2 — Logical Unit 6.2
- luach — a calendar that shows the dates of festivals and, usually, the times of start and finish of the Sabbath
- luaus — Plural form of luau.
- lubed — Simple past tense and past participle of lube.
- lubes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lube.
- lubke — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1894–1972, German statesman: president of West Germany 1959–69.
- lubra — an Aborigine girl or woman.
- lucan — (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) a.d. 39–65, Roman poet, born in Spain.
- lucas — George, born 1944, U.S. film director.
- lucca — a city in NW Italy, W of Florence.
- luces — a pike, especially when fully grown.
- lucia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “light.”.
- lucid — easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.
- lucks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of luck.
- lucky — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- lucre — monetary reward or gain; money.
- ludes — Quaalude.
- ludic — playful in an aimless way: the ludic behavior of kittens.
- luffa — loofah.