6-letter words with LU in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter LU is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of LU in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how LU in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| values | 9 | beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) | he has very conservatives values |
| salute | 6 | propose a toast to | - |
| volume | 11 | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | - |
| column | 10 | an article giving opinions or perspectives | - |
| asylum | 11 | a shelter from danger or hardship | - |
| clumsy | 13 | showing lack of skill or aptitude | did a clumsy job |
| fluffy | 18 | like down or as soft as down | - |
| clutch | 13 | a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other |
| valued | 10 | held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | a valued friend |
| plunge | 9 | cause to be immersed | The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text |
| deluxe | 14 | elegant and sumptuous | a deluxe car |
| fluent | 9 | expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | - |
| blurry | 11 | indistinct or hazy in outline | the trees were just blurry shapes |
| slutty | 9 | - | - |
| plural | 8 | the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | - |
| unplug | 9 | pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | unplug the hair dryer after using it |
| deluge | 8 | an overwhelming number or amount | - |
| eluded | 8 | - | - |
| sludge | 8 | any thick, viscous matter | - |
| flunky | 16 | a person of unquestioning obedience | - |
| influx | 16 | the process of flowing in | - |
| flurry | 12 | a rapid active commotion | - |
| beluga | 9 | valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | - |
| allure | 6 | dispose or incline or entice to | - |
| bluish | 11 | of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | - |
| plucky | 17 | marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | - |
| reflux | 16 | the outward flow of the tide | - |
| delude | 8 | be false to; be dishonest with | - |
| gluten | 7 | a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough | - |
| callus | 8 | an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | - |
| dilute | 7 | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | - |
| slushy | 12 | effusively or insincerely emotional | slushy poetry |
| clucky | 17 | - | - |
| gluing | 8 | - | - |
| bluest | 8 | - | - |
| sluice | 8 | conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate | - |
| clunky | 15 | lacking grace in movement or posture | - |
| allude | 7 | make a more or less disguised reference to | He alluded to the problem but did not mention it |
| slurry | 9 | a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
| stylus | 9 | a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving | he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus |
| plummy | 15 | (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | the radio announcer's plummy voice |
| pluton | 8 | large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | - |
| phylum | 16 | (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes | - |
| klutzy | 22 | - | - |
| clumpy | 15 | - | - |
| plumed | 11 | (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | - |
| vallum | 11 | - | - |
| vellum | 11 | a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
| obolus | 8 | a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram | - |
| illume | 8 | make lighter or brighter | - |
| clubby | 15 | effusively sociable | we got rather clubby |
| cluing | 9 | - | - |
| sludgy | 11 | - | - |
| solute | 6 | the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state | - |
| unglue | 7 | - | - |
| alumna | 8 | a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
| cluier | 8 | - | - |
| alulas | 6 | - | - |
| glutch | 12 | - | - |
| kaluki | 14 | - | - |
| splurt | 8 | - | - |
| vellus | 9 | - | - |
| rollup | 8 | - | - |
| plutos | 8 | - | - |
| pluots | 8 | - | - |
| slurpy | 11 | - | - |
| slurve | 9 | - | - |
| pluffs | 14 | - | - |
| pluffy | 17 | - | - |
| plumbs | 12 | - | - |
| plumes | 10 | - | - |
| plumps | 12 | - | - |
| plucks | 14 | - | - |
| plumpy | 15 | - | - |
| plunks | 12 | - | - |
| plunky | 15 | - | - |
| plurry | 11 | - | - |
| plused | 9 | - | - |
| pluses | 8 | - | - |
| plushy | 14 | (of textures) resembling plush | - |
| plutei | 8 | - | - |
| poilus | 8 | - | - |
| pilula | 8 | - | - |
| pilule | 8 | - | - |
| pullup | 10 | - | - |
| pullus | 8 | - | - |
| reluct | 8 | - | - |
| relume | 8 | - | - |
| replum | 10 | - | - |
| reglue | 7 | - | - |
| schlub | 13 | - | - |
| salued | 7 | - | - |
| salues | 6 | - | - |
| saluki | 10 | old breed of tall swift keen-eyed hunting dogs resembling greyhounds; from Egypt and southwestern Asia | - |
| siglum | 9 | - | - |
| shlubs | 11 | - | - |
| shlump | 13 | - | - |
| slummy | 13 | (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty | a slummy part of town |
| slumps | 10 | - | - |
| slumpy | 13 | - | - |
| slurbs | 8 | - | - |
| slurps | 8 | - | - |
| sluses | 6 | - | - |
| sluits | 6 | - | - |
| sluing | 7 | - | - |
| slubbs | 10 | - | - |
| slubby | 13 | - | - |
| sluffs | 12 | - | - |
| sluicy | 11 | - | - |
| slutch | 11 | - | - |
| skelum | 12 | - | - |
| solums | 8 | - | - |
| pablum | 12 | worthless or oversimplified ideas | - |
| pellum | 10 | - | - |
| peplum | 12 | a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | - |
| peplus | 10 | a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist | - |
| tellus | 6 | (Roman mythology) goddess of the earth; protector of marriage and fertility; identified with Greek Gaea | - |
| taluka | 10 | - | - |
| taluks | 10 | - | - |
| valuta | 9 | - | - |
| valuer | 9 | someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions | - |
| velure | 9 | - | - |
| volute | 9 | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | - |
| villus | 9 | a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane | - |
| tholus | 9 | - | - |
| toluic | 8 | - | - |
| toluid | 7 | - | - |
| toluol | 6 | - | - |
| toluyl | 9 | - | - |
| killut | 10 | - | - |
| kludge | 12 | a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together) | - |
| kludgy | 15 | - | - |
| kluged | 12 | - | - |
| kluges | 11 | - | - |
| mamluk | 14 | - | - |
| mukluk | 16 | - | - |
| mucluc | 12 | - | - |
| obelus | 8 | - | - |
| oculus | 8 | the organ of sight | - |
| opulus | 8 | - | - |
| illupi | 8 | - | - |
| illude | 7 | - | - |
| idolum | 9 | - | - |
| eluvia | 9 | - | - |
| elutor | 6 | - | - |
| eluant | 6 | - | - |
| eluate | 6 | a liquid solution that results from elution | - |
| eluder | 7 | - | - |
| eludes | 7 | - | - |
| eluent | 6 | - | - |
| eluted | 7 | - | - |
| elutes | 6 | - | - |
| efflux | 19 | the process of flowing out | - |
| evolue | 9 | - | - |
| englut | 7 | overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | - |
| flugel | 10 | - | - |
| fluids | 10 | - | - |
| fluier | 9 | - | - |
| fluish | 12 | - | - |
| fluked | 14 | - | - |
| flukes | 13 | - | - |
| flukey | 16 | subject to accident or chance or change | - |
| flumed | 12 | - | - |
| fluffs | 15 | - | - |
| fluate | 9 | - | - |
| flumes | 11 | - | - |
| flumps | 13 | - | - |
| fluxed | 17 | - | - |
| fluxes | 16 | - | - |
| fluyts | 12 | - | - |
| flutey | 12 | - | - |
| flutes | 9 | - | - |
| flunks | 13 | - | - |
| fluors | 9 | - | - |
| flurrs | 9 | - | - |
| flushy | 15 | - | - |
| fluted | 10 | - | - |
| fluter | 9 | - | - |
| galuts | 7 | - | - |
| galuth | 10 | - | - |
| gallus | 7 | common domestic birds and related forms | - |
| glunch | 12 | - | - |
| gluons | 7 | - | - |
| glurge | 8 | - | - |
| glutei | 7 | - | - |
| glutes | 7 | - | - |
| glumpy | 14 | - | - |
| glumps | 11 | - | - |
| glucan | 9 | - | - |
| gluers | 7 | - | - |
| gluier | 7 | - | - |
| gluily | 10 | - | - |
| gluish | 10 | - | - |
| glumes | 9 | - | - |
| glumly | 12 | in a sullen manner | - |
| hallux | 16 | the first largest innermost toe | - |
| halutz | 18 | - | - |
| cyclus | 13 | - | - |
| baluns | 8 | - | - |
| ballup | 10 | something badly botched or muddled | - |
| bludie | 9 | - | - |
| bluely | 11 | - | - |
| bluesy | 11 | - | - |
| bluets | 8 | - | - |
| blueys | 11 | - | - |
| bluffs | 14 | - | - |
| bluggy | 13 | - | - |
| bludge | 10 | - | - |
| bludes | 9 | - | - |
| bluids | 9 | - | - |
| bluidy | 12 | - | - |
| bluier | 8 | - | - |
| blurts | 8 | - | - |
| bluing | 9 | a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | - |
| blumed | 11 | - | - |
| blumes | 10 | - | - |
| blunge | 9 | - | - |
| blunks | 12 | - | - |
| blunts | 8 | - | - |
| blurbs | 10 | - | - |
| colugo | 9 | arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps | - |
| colure | 8 | - | - |
| clusia | 8 | an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers | - |
| clucks | 14 | - | - |
| clumps | 12 | - | - |
| clunch | 13 | hardened clay | - |
| clunks | 12 | - | - |
| beflum | 13 | - | - |
| afflux | 19 | - | - |
| ablush | 11 | - | - |
| alumni | 8 | - | - |
| alures | 6 | - | - |
| aludel | 7 | - | - |
| alulae | 6 | - | - |
| alular | 6 | pertaining to alulae | - |
| alumin | 8 | - | - |
| amylum | 13 | a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | - |
