9-letter words containing lu
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- caliculus — calyculus (def 1).
- callusing — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calyculus — a small, cuplike part, as a taste bud, or a cuplike depression, as in a coral skeleton
- cancellus — (in an early Christian basilica) one of a row of bars separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.
- cannelure — a groove or fluting, esp one around the cylindrical part of a bullet
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- cellulase — any enzyme that converts cellulose to the disaccharide cellobiose
- cellulate — cellular.
- cellulite — Cellulite is lumpy fat which people may get under their skin, especially on their thighs.
- celluloid — You can use celluloid to refer to films and the cinema.
- cellulose — Cellulose is a substance that exists in the cell walls of plants and is used to make paper, plastic, and various fabrics and fibres.
- cellulous — consisting of or filled with cells
- chalumeau — an early reed instrument, the precursor of the clarinet
- chalutzim — halutz.
- chevelure — the hazy or misty luminescence encircling a comet or star
- choluteca — a city in S Honduras.
- cleobulus — flourished 560 b.c, Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.
- clitellum — a thickened saddle-like region of epidermis in earthworms and leeches whose secretions bind copulating worms together and later form a cocoon around the eggs
- club card — A club card is a card issued by a retailer which allows the card holder to make discounted purchases.
- club deal — a takeover bid in which several private-equity companies form a syndicate to acquire a target company
- club foot — If someone has a club foot, they are born with a badly twisted foot.
- club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- club root — a disease of plants of the cabbage family, caused by a slime mold (Plasmodiophora brassicae) and characterized by swellings of the roots
- club soda — Club soda is fizzy water used for mixing with alcoholic drinks and fruit juice.
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- club-foot — a knoblike foot formed from the end of a cabriole leg as a continuation of its lines: less flat than a pad foot but otherwise similar.
- clubbable — A clubbable person is friendly and likes being with other people, which makes them good members of social clubs.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- clubmates — Plural form of clubmate.
- clubrooms — Plural form of clubroom.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- clumsiest — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.
- clunkhead — a stupid or foolish person.
- clustered — If people or things are clustered somewhere, there is a group of them close together there.
- clutchest — to seize with or as with the hands or claws; snatch: The bird swooped down and clutched its prey with its claws.
- clutching — to hatch (chickens).
- cluttered — filled with things or people in an untidy way
- clutterer — One who clutters.
- code blue — (often initial capital letters) a medical emergency in which paramedics are dispatched to aid a person undergoing cardiac arrest.
- colluding — to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent.
- collusion — Collusion is secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.