5-letter words starting with lu
- lunks — a dull or stupid person; blockhead.
- lunky — Stupid; slow-witted; unintelligent.
- lunts — a match; the flame used to light a fire.
- lupin — The common name for members of the genus Lupinus in the family Fabaceae.
- lupus — lupus vulgaris.
- luray — a town in N Virginia: site of Luray Caverns.
- lurch — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurer — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lures — Plural form of lure.
- lurex — Alternative capitalization of Lurex.
- lurgi — Alternative spelling of lurgy.
- lurgy — (British, slang) A fictitious, highly infectious disease; often used in the phrase
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lurid — gruesome; horrible; revolting: the lurid details of an accident.
- lurie — Alison. born 1926, US novelist. Her novels include Imaginary Friends (1967), The War Between the Tates (1974), Foreign Affairs (1985), and The Last Resort (1998)
- lurks — to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
- lurry — (transitive) To lug or pull about.
- lurve — (informal) Love, fondness.
- luser — (jargon, abuse) /loo'zr/ A user; especially one who is also a loser. (luser and loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, including how many people were already using the computer; it might print "14 users", for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print "14 losers" instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say "users" or "losers". Finally, someone tried the compromise "lusers", and it stuck. Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser" as a request-for-help command. ITS died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, however, and the term "luser" is often seen in program comments. See: also LART. Compare: tourist, weenie.
- lushy — drunk; tipsy.
- luso- — indicating Portugal or Portuguese
- lusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lust.
- lusty — full of or characterized by healthy vigor.
- lusus — a product of nature that deviates from the norm, a freak or mutant, usually as 'lusus naturae'
- lutea — yellow
- luted — Simple past tense and past participle of lute.
- luter — One who applies lute.
- lutes — Plural form of lute.
- luth. — Lutheran
- luton — a city in Bedfordshire, S central England, NW of London.
- lutsk — a city in NW Ukraine, on the Styr River.
- luvvy — An actor or actress, especially one who is particularly effusive or affected.
- luxor — a town in S (Upper) Egypt, on the Nile: ruins of ancient Thebes.
- luzon — the chief island of the Philippines, in the N part of the group. 40,420 sq. mi. (104,688 sq. km). Capital: Manila.