7-letter words containing l, o, u
- full-on — Full-on is used to describe things or activities that have all the characteristics of their type, or are done in the strongest or most extreme way possible.
- fulsome — offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
- fulvous — tawny; dull yellowish-gray or yellowish-brown.
- furlong — a unit of distance, equal to 220 yards (201 meters) or ⅛ mile (0.2 km). Abbreviation: fur.
- gallous — Fit to be hanged; wicked; mischievous.
- ghoulie — a goblin
- glamour — the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, especially by a combination of charm and good looks.
- glauco- — bluish-green, silvery, or gray
- glebous — clod-like; earthy
- globule — a small spherical body.
- glouted — Simple past tense and past participle of glout.
- glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- gluepot — a double boiler in which glue is melted.
- gluonic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or mediated by gluons.
- glutony — Misspelling of gluttony.
- glutose — an ingredient of a syrupy mixture obtained by the action of alkali on levulose or found in the unfermentable reducing portion of cane molasses.
- glutton — the wolverine, Gulo gulo, of Europe.
- gnuplot — (tool) A command-driven interactive graphing program. Gnuplot can plot two-dimensional functions and data points in many different styles (points, lines, error bars); and three-dimensional data points and surfaces in many different styles (contour plot, mesh). It supports complex arithmetic and user-defined functions and can label title, axes, and data points. It can output to several different graphics file formats and devices. Command line editing and history are supported and there is extensive on-line help. Gnuplot is copyrighted, but freely distributable. It was written by Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley, Russell Lang, Dave Kotz, John Campbell, Gershon Elber, Alexander Woo and many others. Despite its name, gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. It was designed completely independently and is not covered by the General Public License. However, the FSF has decided to distribute gnuplot as part of the GNU system, because it is useful, redistributable software. Gnuplot is available for: Unix (X11 and NEXTSTEP), VAX/VMS, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga, MS-Windows, OS-9/68k, Atari ST and Macintosh. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- goldbug — Informal. a person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard.
- goldcup — a Mexican climbing shrub, Solandra guttata, of the nightshade family, having cup-shaped yellow flowers marked with purple.
- goldurn — goldarn.
- gomulka — Wladyslaw [vlah-di-slahf] /vlɑˈdɪ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1905–82, Polish political leader: First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party 1956–70.
- goulash — Also called Hungarian goulash. a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, with paprika and other seasoning.
- goulden — Obsolete form of golden.
- goutfly — a fly whose larvae infect crops
- gullion — (obsolete) A worthless wretch.
- gumboil — a small abscess on the gum, originating in an abscess in the pulp of a tooth.
- gunlock — the mechanism of a firearm by which the charge is exploded.
- haloumi — a salty cheese originating in Cyprus and made from sheep’s or goat’s milk: often grilled or fried because it melts very slowly.
- hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hold-up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdout — an act or instance of holding out.
- holdups — Plural form of holdup.
- hole up — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- holguin — a city in NE Cuba.
- holibut — halibut.
- holmium — a rare-earth, trivalent element found in gadolinite. Symbol: Ho; atomic weight: 164.930; atomic number: 67.
- hoodlum — a thug or gangster.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hornful — the amount a horn will hold
- houndly — Of, like, or characteristic of hounds or dogs; doglike; dogly; canine.
- humoral — of, relating to, or proceeding from a fluid of the body.
- humulon — a bitter constituent of hops, C 21 H 30 O 5 , having antibiotic properties.
- inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- jalouse — (Scotland) To suspect.
- jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- jiulong — Kowloon.
- jobclub — a group of unemployed people organized through a Jobcentre, which meets every day and is given advice on job seeking to increase its members' chances of finding employment
- jocular — given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars.
- jonquil — a narcissus, Narcissus jonquilla, having long, narrow, rushlike leaves and fragrant, yellow or white flowers.