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12-letter words containing lou

  • graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
  • heliophilous — attracted to sunlight
  • hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
  • hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
  • hypophyllous — growing on the undersurface of leaves, as a fungus.
  • intervillous — Between the villi.
  • iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
  • lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
  • local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
  • loud-mouthed — If you describe someone as loud-mouthed, you are critical of them because they talk a lot, especially in an unpleasant, offensive, or stupid way.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
  • louis quinze — noting or pertaining to the rococo style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early and mid-18th century, characterized by fantasy, lightness, elegance, and comfort.
  • louis treize — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early 17th century, characterized by a gradual transition from the free invention and composition of the renaissance to the classicism of the Louis Quatorze period.
  • louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
  • loutrophoros — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a water jar, characterized by an elongated neck and flaring mouth, used to carry water for the marriage bath and set on the tomb of a person who had been unmarried.
  • louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
  • marie louise — 1791–1847, 2nd wife of Napoleon I: empress of France; duchess of Parma 1816–31 (daughter of Francis II of Austria; mother of Napoleon II).
  • marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
  • meticulously — taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
  • microvillous — Relating to microvilli.
  • middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
  • miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
  • monopetalous — gamopetalous.
  • monophyllous — consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.
  • monosepalous — gamosepalous.
  • nebulousness — The characteristic of being nebulous.
  • necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
  • nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
  • noctambulous — of, relating to, or given to sleepwalking.
  • nonfrivolous — not frivolous
  • octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
  • octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • over-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.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overcoloured — excessively coloured
  • overflourish — to flourish excessively
  • paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • polypetalous — having a corolla of separate petals.
  • polyphyllous — made up of multiple members or parts
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